Are municipal elections in Euskadi are of traca, and may God forbid me from saying that they are the bomb. In Bilbao, the Falange presented Carlos García Juliá, one of the murderers of Atocha’s lawyers, for mayor. The list was not admitted at the end, but because it had repeated names. There, having killed is not an impediment to representing the citizens in the institutions. In Bildu they must have said: “Are there going to be the fucking ‘fatxas’ these more than us?” And since no one beats the Basques, they released “put up with the pacharán” and presented an assortment of 44 convicted of terrorism, seven of them for blood crimes and two in the same towns where neighbors were murdered. Browse, compare and let me know if you find something better!
It is not new either, it must be clarified. In 1998, Euskal Herritarrok presented none other than Josu Ternera, who the following year participated as a parliamentarian in the Human Rights Commission of the Basque Chamber, I don’t know if ironically or taking himself seriously. That was a scandal and one of the triggers for the approval of the party law with which the State curtailed a good part of what today makes up Bildu: a network of parties that served as political support to the cells of the terrorist band. And of course, from those powders for explosives, these sludges of little shame.
dotted i’s
Politics can be reached after committing a crime or turning to crime from the seat, but in this case ETA there is light talk of reinsertion and here I would like to put some points on beheaded i’s. Okay, Mrs. Ione: they are all people who have already purged their crimes in jail. Yes, Mr. José Luis: better as councilors than shooting him in the neck. But first, it is not specified that these candidates have declared their repentance or purpose of amendment: two of them concur with their names of war, Tinín and Medius, which is a strange indication. Second, from Covite Consuelo Ordóñez has said that victims perceive this as a provocation.
But above all, third, one wonders if someone who murdered or collaborated with murderers for taking politics too seriously has, precisely in politics, his most appropriate return to society. In Euskadi, as in the rest of Spain, there is a need for bakers, accountants, publicists, waiters and hairdressers (in Bilbao there are many, especially in the old). They are all these decent professions, some with a future projection, to which these gentlemen and ladies could perfectly apply to stay away from politics, with which they have given nothing but trouble. Putting them on the lists of a town hall seems, ‘a priori’, as good an idea as putting an abstinent alcoholic to make cocktails at Il Giardinetto.
Turn the page?
Also, how do you think a town hall session can go when the guy who killed someone else’s brother or father is on council? Is not the presence of these people going to set the tone for the whole political dispute? Will they accuse councilors or deputies of being annoying when they remind them day after day of what they did? How do you think this can contribute to peace?
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You have to turn the page!, they will answer me from Bildu. It sounds strange that they say it after agreeing with the PSOE on the approval of a law that speaks of Franco as if he were just around the corner and skews the political memory of Spain, I can agree: a country weighed down by the blood of its own history is a country that advances in fits and starts. Alright, let’s turn the page! But to do it without leaving clots to spoil the paper, wouldn’t it be beneficial if this whole standardization process had been the next step? to the clarification of the almost 400 ETA murders of which the culprit is still unknown? This gesture, of a generosity that those from Bildu have only shown with themselves, would not only show that they are truly sorry and want to close wounds, but would also be the symbolic equivalent of having unearthed the bodies of Republicans from the gutters 40 years ago.
Any “step forward” on top of a charnel house of unsolved crimes, we well know, is walking on gangrene.