The leader of Bildu and partner of Pedro Sánchez, Arnaldo Otegiboasted this Saturday of the transfers withdrawn from the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in exchange for his maintenance in La Moncloa. “There was many advances last year fruit of our work institutional and activist,” Otegi boasted during a demonstration called by his party in Bilbao.
The leader of the pro-ETA party and Sánchez’s favorite ally, painted a portrait of the socialist leader, without mentioning him, listing the concessions he extracted from the executive.
“A year ago today, the jurisdiction of road traffic in Navarra was still in the hands of the Civil Guard and today it is no longer. We have taken steps to disable the gag law And important steps In the search for a definitive solution to the problem of political prisoners, we have put an end to dispersion, third degrees and isolation and now, with one of the exceptional measures that have been applied to them”, Otegi emphasized , alluding to the recent reform introduced by the Government in a European directive and which will allow around fifty members of ETA see their sentences shortened.
Otegi did not stop at these achievements and said he would ask more of the socialist president: “We need take the leap onto the national stageto open the way to a new political status for our country”, he shouted. According to him, “everyone must recognize that Euskal Herría “It is a nation and it must be respected.”
This Saturday, Bildu led a march in Bilbao to demand the independence of the Basque Country and the implementation of a new “plurinational” model in Spain, supported by other partners of Sánchez, such as ERC, BNG, CUP and the regional brands Sumar Compromís and Mes Per Mallorca.
Otegi had already announced last September the call for this march “in a very important and very important context”, alluding to the fact that the government of Pedro Sánchez was now opening up to the debate “on the national problems that exist in the State, on the territorial model and about the plurinationality“.
This Saturday’s mobilization is the first of Bildu’s phases in his plan to open his race towards independence in exchange for Sánchez’s continued support in power. They announce that “the path begins with respect Euskal Herría as a nation and its citizens as free and equal citizens who have the right to decide freely and democratically your future. “This is the beginning of a path to talk about the future status.”
As OKDIARIO reports, Otegi’s party also intends to prevent the imminent prison releases And sentence reductions prisoners of ETAbrought about by the socialist executive’s legal reform, could generate enough social and political upheaval to overthrow them. It is for this reason that, since the training, platforms that support ETA detainees have been asked to refrain from disseminating prison permits, third diplomas or releases from prison.
The aim is to avoid the “political obstacles” that could pose “negative pressure on judges who are currently deciding on the petitions presented by a good number of the 52 detainees to benefit from the new regulations.
