Disembarkation of Catalan independentists this Saturday in Bilbao to join the demonstration that the Sare citizen network has held in Bilbao to demand the rights of ETA prisoners. From there, both the deputy spokesperson for ERC in the Congress of Deputies, Teresa Jordaas the vice president and spokesperson of Junts, Josep Riushave asked to “put an end” to the discriminatory treatment meted out to them, in relation to the rest of the prison population.
The CUP deputy also attended the march Montserrat Vinyets and the president of the ANC, Dolors Feliu. The anti-capitalists have considered the treatment of ETA prisoners “a clear example of what the criminal law of the enemy is”, while Feliu has expressed his support for Basque citizens in their demand for “human rights and the rapprochement of prisoners”.
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In this sense, Jordà has rejected the existence of “conflicts” that “should never have left politics” and has denounced the “exceptional measures” that are applied to ETA prisoners. The Republican explained that her presence at the march is due “to the commitment of Esquerra Republicana to fraternity among peoples” and, above all, “to the defense of causes for rights, not only fundamental, but also human.” “.
For this reason, he stated that ERC joins “once again, the rejection of these exceptional measures, which in the current context have no reason to exist.” The deputy spokesperson for ERC has assured that her party remains “always at the side of the Basque people” because Catalonia and Euskadi are “united by democratic and national desires, always through peace and dialogue.” “We are facing political conflicts that should never have left politics and today is also a good day to claim it,” she concluded.
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For its part, the ERC senate Joan Queralt, who marched alongside Jordà during the demonstration, defended their support “as democrats, as fraternal colleagues of the Basque people” to demand “one thing that any democrat must ask for: the equal application of the law, a law without discrimination.” . “A law that does not leave people behind, a law that applies to us as revenge. As long as this is not the case, we will be together in this fight for democracy, freedom, peace and prosperity,” he added.
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On behalf of Junts, Josep Rius He has asked “all Spanish authorities” to “end the exceptional treatment” of ETA prisoners and has expressed his commitment to “reconciliation and coexistence.” Thus, the post-convergent has expressed all its “support and solidarity” with the prisoners and has asked that “this exceptionality that is being applied against the Basque prisoners be put to an end.” As he added, Junts has also joined the march “in favor of reconciliation and coexistence”, and from “the defense, support and commitment” of human rights “in all the institutions in which it is represented.”