THE NEOS Foundation This Tuesday, he accused the socialist government of having given in to Bildu’s demands and of having allowed the modification of the Organic Law 7/2014 to allow the reduction of the sentences of ETA prisoners who had served their sentences outside Spain. “Sánchez’s Popular Front is paying its debts,” the entity says.
From NEOS, they regretted, through a press release published this Tuesday, that “the progress of ETA in the realization of its political project” had been confirmed. “We are governed by a process that inexorably follows its roadmap: the destruction of the social order of Spain and there is no greater sign of this than the attack on the victims of terrorism, the shield of democracy”, declared the foundation chaired by the who was Minister of the Interior between 1996 and 2000, Jaime Mayor Oreja.
“President Sánchez respects all the pacts concluded with his government partners of the popular front and in particular with his faithful ally Arnaldo Otegi, for whom the political legitimization of ETA and the release of prisoners, as he reminded us with his prisoners for budgets“, were the first steps that will undoubtedly lead us, as soon as possible, to see ETA in power in the Basque Country, as has already happened in Pamplona”, noted the institution.
NEOS called this “nonsense and ignominy of the Popular Front government parties for the benefit of 40 ETA members.” In the eyes of this institution, it is the confirmation of “the existence of a plan, of a project, alive since 2004, which has and will not have ethical, moral or democratic limits”.
But according to this entity, there will be other steps “because this process will irreversibly lead us to self-determination and the presence of ETA in the Basque Government, as soon as possible, alongside the socialists.”
The association deplores that “the predominance of the political narrative over the truth” “leads to the destruction of our social and democratic order and emphasizes the depth and perversity of the entire process that we are experiencing and will experience. starting from the conviction that this scandal has no other solution than the creation of a new milestone, a new milestone, so the important thing will be to anticipate the next steps.
Reform promoted by Bildu
Until now, the established standard, through its unique additional provisionthat “under no circumstances will convictions handed down by a court of a Member State of the European Union before August 15, 2010 be taken into account for the application of this law”. In other words, the government of Mariano Rajoyof the PP, assured, by approving this article, that the sentence served by an ETA member convicted in another country of the European Union would not be taken into account in the time served for the sentence he should undergo in Spain.
The article disappeared from the opinion of the Justice Commission voted in the Lower House in September 2024. This text included an amendment by Sumar aimed at repealing the only additional provision. From the party led by the second vice-president and minister of labor and social economy, Yolanda Diazthey justified that it was a matter of adapting it to community regulations.
The reform would allow the immediate release of several prisoners. Among them, Javier Garcia Gaztelupseudonym Txapotethe bloodthirsty boss of ETA who killed Miguel Angel Blanco And Fernando Mugica among many others and which accumulates 450 years of conviction. However, with the new rule, the six and a half years he served in France will be counted, which would be deducted from the date he planned to leave prison: 2031. Its release could come earlier this Christmas.
