“It is a democratic party that has complied with the rules”

2023-12-18 22:37:12

The meeting between Pedro Sánchez as President of the Government and Alberto Núñez Feijóo as leader of the opposition is still up in the air. The exchange of accusations between the Government and PP continues. One of the keys that adds the most doubts to this meeting proposal is the controversy in Pamplona over the pact between PSOE and Bildu. The Minister of Transportation, Óscar Puente, said that it was normal in democracy. This Monday Puente has equated the pacts of the PP and Vox with those of Bildu and the PSOE.

Puente defends that Bildu “is a democratic party that has complied with the rules of our country and that has every right to participate in politics like anyone else.” “Therefore, I honestly do not understand the demonstrations,” he comments regarding the concentrations in Pamplona against that motion of censure that expels UPN from the City Council.

The Minister of Transport questions whether this agreement is “more out of memory” than “illegally financing” with the Miguel Ángel Blanco Foundation. “It is one thing to respect the memory of the victims of terrorism and another to recognize the right to political participation of those who at this moment have abandoned any hint of the use of violence,” he stated.

Likewise, he highlighted that when the popular Javier Maroto was mayor of Vitoria, he built bridges with Bildu. “I also had to look under the car and I thought, I suppose like so many, that this would never end, it was part of our landscape, waking up with the shock of some attack and we thought that this was not going to end but, it ended a few years ago how many years,” he noted.

Óscar Puente has reported that at the time when the terrorist group existed, no one would have believed that those who “killed or sympathized” with ETA were going to engage in politics. “If that had happened, we would all have said: ‘where should we sign?'” he noted.

Meanwhile, the Government defends the pact and defends Bildu. For its part, the PP intends to present motions of censure throughout Spain in response. This is what its spokesperson Borja Sémper has announced: “You cannot reward those who continue to defend today that ETA had reason to exist.”