The president of the EBB of the PNV, Andoni Ortuzar, assured that it did not suit him that the PP had made “a major error” with the law that commutes the sentences of ETA prisoners. “We all knew it”he declared, to consider that the popular people consciously voted for it in Congress, but They did not measure “the scandal” that was going to arise.
In an interview with Radio Euskadi, Ortuzar spoke of the reform of the law on the exchange of information on criminal records and the review of criminal judicial decisions in the EU, which unanimously approved by Congress, And? would allow prisoners to commute the sentences they have served in Francebut that the PP has stopped, for the moment, in the Senate.
To explain why they want to make this legal change, he explained that This involves “harmonizing the law of the Spanish State with the law of all of Europe”. “Europe is the place where there is the most democracy and the most guarantees in the world. And if 80 or 90% of European countries already have this judicial regime, this Penal Code and these penalties, it will be for a good reason,” he stressed. .
After insisting that all parliamentary groups knew what this impliedrecalled that this subject “has been talked about a lot”. “It was time to do it and I think it was well done. And the People’s Party knew it, its lawyers may be what they are, but they are not stupid,” he said .
The Jeltzale frontman said that this is now revealed and “what happens is when you spit to the sky, it normally falls on you, and now it falls on the PP.” “So what they want to do is blame others when it’s a decision that I’m sure they made consciously,” he said.
According to him, what happened was that “probably they did not take into account the political and media scandal that was going to arise and to which they are contributing today.”
Furthermore, he said that “It’s a shame” what the PP spokesperson in Congress, Miguel Tellado, didwho used photographs of PSOE leaders assassinated by the gang to attack the government of Pedro Sánchez in the Lower House for the amendment that validates the sentences served by prisoners outside the state.
