“I was nervous when I heard Aznar speak about the Basque National Liberation Movement (MLNV). I also remember the astonishment of the moment when Jaime Mayor Oreja approached the ETA prisoners. What I always thought was that there was a reason of state. “Everyone must face their contradictions, Aznar too. » The person who spoke like this in 2020 was Borja Sémper in an interview with El País a few days after announcing his departure from politics and in which he insisted: “Continuing to talk so much about ETA is like forgetting that we defeated him.
He left because public life was then following an unedifying path, because “what we do cannot be called political with capital letters”, because “the defense of certain positions and the criticism of others are compatible with the ‘education and respect’. because the shift must be accompanied by the search for meeting points.”
