Elections in Spain: The Prosecutor’s Office does not see a crime in which those convicted of terrorism attend the elections

The inclusion in electoral lists of the Basque independence party EH Bildu of candidates who were convicted of terrorism It is not a crime or cause to exclude them from the next local and regional elections in Spainaccording to the Prosecutor’s Office.

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The Prosecutor of the National Court Spanish spoke this Wednesday on a complaint filed by the association of victims of terrorism Dignity and Justicein case any of the 44 convicted included in those lists, seven of them for terrorist acts with fatalities, continues to be disqualified from holding public office even though he has served his prison sentence.

There are elections on May 28 for municipalities and regions in Spain and the formation EH Bildu presents candidates who were convicted of terrorism in different places, which has aroused strong political controversy, with cross-criticism between the conservative opposition and the coalition government from leftwho is supported in Parliament by the Basque formation.

The seven convicted of murders of the terrorist group ETA who are on the lists for the elections of the next may 28 They have resigned from their posts if elected, so as not to add “the slightest suffering to what has already occurred” for the victims.

“The concurrence of any circumstance that allows us to glimpse that we are facing an assumption of ineligibility”, “nor that the facts that are the subject of the complaint have criminal significance or constitute an illegal act”explains in a statement.

The far-right party vox (third in the Congress of Deputies) has asked the electoral body to exclude these candidates and to declare illegal EH Bildu.

The victims’ association also called for the banning of this party, after denouncing that the inclusion of these candidates in the regions of the Basque Country and Navarre “in the very municipalities where they committed the murders and where their victims live” cause “humiliation”, although the Prosecutor’s Office does not rule on this issue.

He constitutional Court Spain already rejected this illegalization in previous elections, among other arguments because it would violate the fundamental right to political participation and because it was not proven that their candidacies were instrumentalized then by the terrorist group ETA.

This terrorist group who advocated the independence from regions like the Basque Country acted between 1958 and 2018, when he declared his dissolutionwith more than eight hundred murders during those decades.

Source: Elcomercio

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