Democratic politics is not defined by the survival of the government, but by its adherence to the constitutional principles that support the status quo.
Here we are with the news that our government seems to have decided to hold its breath. The possibility of adding ETA to the list of terrorist organizations of the European Union.
If you want it back, you’ll have to delete it. In lieu of retirement or elimination, it will be called “no mid-year renewal”.
Technical method tries to disguise itself as formalism. There is one technical matter which, as they say, does not change the essence.
But it is precisely this gesture where one dwells in the grave. Foreign policy consists of symbols and signals. And the signal that would be sent from Spain to Brussels and to the world is debilidad. De renounce to support a firm posture against people in the Middle Ages they asked their friends.
A quick adoption would also mean a huge ethical and legal dispute in Spain.
Miguel Tellado presented a photo of two socialist activists from ETA in Congress.
ETA’s inclusion on the community list dates back to December 2001 on a list of designations that followed the 9/11 attacks when it joined groups such as the IRA or Al-Qaeda. It is based on Common Position 2001/931/CFSP on special measures to combat terrorism.
This list, which is revised every six months, is not a simple formality. It is a legal and political tool with tangible consequences in political and judicial cooperation, in the freezing of assets and in a clear response to patterns of violence that cross borders and to many wounds that are slow to heal.
Returning to an organization on this list requires a clear break with your criminal past and it is decided: verifiable resolution, surrender of weapons, full cooperation with justice and crime reporting contribution.
This did not happen with ETA.
The operational disappearance of an organization is not equivalent to formal return or effective compensation for victims. Centuries of asesinatos still remain undiscovered, logistical structures and social apoyos have not been fully explored, and there is no claims accounting process to clarify this chapter with the legal truth that the system requires.
Redefining the relevance of ETA for the European list without including these legal conditions weakens the very essence of the current state. Never trade justice for convenience.
This weakening comes at a time when, internationally, the EU has decided to persevere in its counter-terrorism policy towards actors with a clear repressive behavior, such as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It is therefore possible to include it in the list of terrorist organizations with the subsequent application of the relevant legal sanctions and restrictions: the freezing of assets and, what is very important, the prohibition of material assistance.
A response from Iran declared the military forces of European Union member states to be “terrorist groups”. A purely symbolic measure, but representing the importance of consistent application of anti-terrorist criteria by parts of the community block and the legal and political importance of anti-terrorist lists.
They are not mere tools of etiquette, but powerful instruments of foreign policy and security.
In contrast, the Spanish government’s gesture towards ETA supporters appears as another move by “Loco Iván Desesperado” towards a parliamentary balancing act of survival.
Arguing that this decision is justified by “contextualization” or parallelism with the IRA does not stand up to serious analysis.
The Irish peace process included supervised disarmament, verified compromises and an institutional architecture of reconciliation. ETA has nothing comparable.
He has not issued a public statement on a solution that would imply unilateral arms acquisition no full cooperation with justice in solving hundreds of unsolved cases.
This explicit lack of attention is a moral chasm that cannot be bridged.
Protecting the memory of the victims is not a matter of political significance or emotional rhetoric. It is a derecho that forms part of constitutional dignity.
El escuálido Gobierno de Pedro Sánchezwith the praise of a publicly menacing Secretary of State for men, he claims to recalibrate a crime that should be unchanging in its basic aims: to condemn and facilitate terrorist violence.
This is done to ensure that surrounding areas are supported and catered for abertzalism a political, symbolic trophy that does not only correspond to us, if we are recognized as citizens and as a country.
This is not political realism, It is a transaction of dignity because of this infamous artefact that was created in the name of parliamentary arithmetic.
Modern democratic politics cannot afford this type of truth: votes by memory, convenience by justice.
The victims’ association denounced traición, devotion to those who live for democracy and the derecho state. This is not a rhetorical exaggeration. They are words spoken by people who carry the weight of loss and dissatisfaction with justice.
An organization classified by the EU as a terrorist cannot abandon its demands for truth and reparations for victims, it can abandon them without response and without the impetus of awaiting trial.
It would lead to an outcry in the democratic narrative that protects society in the face of the illegitimate use of organized violence, and would undermine Spain’s credibility in the EU at a time when Europe is seeking coherence in its counter-terrorism policies globally.
And, most seriously, it tarnishes the memory of its victims. Here, at the end and at the end, We are all Spanish.
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