The spirit of Ermua is revealed in one of the saddest and at the same time exciting moments in the recent history of this country; The society is raising its voice to make its voice heard in the wake of the heinous murder of Member of Parliament Miguel Ángel Blanco and corners the murderers and accomplices. No one would have thought then that 25 years later those accomplices and some convicted terrorists would take responsibility in politics and be acquitted through a deal with a government that seemed to want to forget ETA’s role. the suffering of the victims who cared for their executioners. Executioners and rejoicing or looking away should never have been possible in a democracy while the country desperately cried for bombs and bullets. The criminals’ collaborators must undertake the most absolute institutional exclusion, and once the weapons are handed over by the criminal gang, their party is outlawed. Thus, we would have spared ourselves the shameful pact of the Democratic Memory Act, signed in exchange for a few miserable votes.
The Spaniards, who still have a non-selective memory, hold fast to the spirit of Ermua, which has helped so much to unite this country democratically and civilly in the face of the ETA threat. To the satisfaction of Bildu, Feijóo is right to undertake to repeal the law that extended the end of the dictatorship until 1983, while also considering that the crimes of the GAL were tried in a timely manner by the democratic courts. The King is right when he says that we cannot afford to forget what happened in those years for generations. And one has to wonder what a sense of righteousness is that of Vice President Teresa Ribera, who described criticisms of the government’s deal with terrorists or their heirs as unrealistic comments. Unbelievable as it sounds, what is not real, ma’am?
Source: Informacion
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