That is the way it goes for you in Spain if you happen to be a Basque that wants self determination.
It really did not come as a surprise when the Court decided to ban AG from running, fascistoid people know when to band together.
The ruling, which may be appealed to the Constitutional Court, stands to erase Batasuna from the electoral map. The pro-independence party was banned in 2003, and the last of its previously elected officials will soon see their terms expire.
The court agreed with a petition from the government and from the state prosecutor that the new grouping, Aukera Guztiak (AG), was an attempt by ETA and Batasuna to subvert bans on them running for public office. A court spokesman said all 16 justices were unanimous.
AG has denied ties to either group and Batasuna has always denied being part of ETA.
The ruling was the result of a series of measures taken by the Spanish legal and political establishment to deny public office to anyone who refuses to clearly condemn ETA violence.
Of course, just like some self righteous fellas I met before, no one in Spain demands from the PP or the PSOE to condemn the rampant torture against Basque detainees. Seems like they focus on one kind of violence only.
Here is Berria's take on the issue:
The basis and arguments for acting against Aukera Guztiak put forward by the Lawyer of the State and the Spanish Attorney General were the same. The Supreme Court accepted the hypotheses of both: that the association of electors was “a tool of the ETA-Batasuna network”, and that the creation of Aukera Guztiak formed “part of a clear strategy” designed by ETA. According to the theory endorsed by the Supreme Court, ETA had decided to present two sets of lists of candidates at the same time in a bid to be represented in the BAC Parliament: a “dirty list” made up of well-known Batasuna members which would be annulled immediately; and a “clean list” made up of people who had no obvious connection with the Basque nationalist left. To support this theory, the Spanish Police and the Spanish Civil Guard investigated the thousands of citizens who had given their signatures to enable Aukera Guztiak to stand in the elections. At the same time they recorded phone conversations of Rafa Diez, the General Secretary of the trade union LAB, promoters of Aukera Guztiak and Batasuna members.
But hey, the European Union is concerned about the political prisoners, in Cuba.
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