2023-05-17 00:16:28
The inclusion of our names in the candidatures of EH Bildu in our respective localities has raised a great political and media dust. 44 candidates have been summoned, most of whom were convicted under the strategy of ‘everything is ETA’ that it pursued strictly political activities and that led to the violation of the civil and political rights of many citizens. It would be a disservice to the minimum democratic principles if it is taken for granted that these rights can continue to be trampled on.
Our specific cases have been highlighted by the facts for which we were sentenced. We are not going to deny now our militancy of the past nor the responsibility that we assume with it. The configuration of the lists in our respective municipalities has reached an undoubted importance, which forces us, for different reasons, to withdraw our candidatures to the extent possible and to ensure that in no case will we take the position of councilor.
With this decision we want to address, first of all, the victims of ETA and, in general, all the people who have suffered in this conflict, in order to show our commitment so that neither our words nor our actions ever add the slightest suffering to the already been We want to highlight that from the beginning we participated in the change in strategy of the nationalist left that took place more than a decade ago, and that we assumed its unequivocal commitment through exclusively political and democratic means.
Likewise, we expressly join the Declaration of October 18 as a self-critical look at the previous cycle of confrontation. It is not in our spirit to hide the past and we believe sincere, constructive and complete memory exercises are necessary. We do not want a future without a past, but neither can we accept the actions of those reactionary sectors that want to condemn our country to a past without a future.
It is quite obvious that in recent days partisan and electoral interests have prevailed that have little or nothing to do with the construction of coexistence and peace, and that the objective of the controversy is none other than to harm EH Bildu , having managed to be an inescapable benchmark and the main transforming force.
In our opinion, it cannot be argued that EH Bildu has the objective of ratifying our previous trajectory. In our opinion, this political project represents a future full of hope for the Basque Country, which has achieved the support of many people and sectors, including many who openly confronted us in their day, who censured us and condemned our actions. Obviously, their participation in this collective project that is EH Bildu is not intended to legitimize ETA.
We understand that EH Bildu was established in a new time as an instrument to achieve sovereignty, peace and freedom, to build a better country. And that is also our commitment.
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