The first news outlet to say something about it was the Taiwan News, guess they are tuned in with the demands of self-determination of other people.
The attorney general's office and a legal advisory panel to the Justice Ministry had filed suits alleging that 15 would-be candidates of the political group Aukera Guztiak - "All Options" in Basque - had close ties to ETA or Batasuna, its alleged political wing.
The group is expected to appeal the ruling before the Constitutional Court within the next two days. That court would then have to make a final decision before April 1.
This note appeared at Berria today:
The Aukera Guztiak association of electors yesterday filed an appeal for legal protection with the Spanish Constitutional Court requesting that the annulment handed down by the Supreme Court be suspended. As the Constitutional Court will have to rule on this before the start of the campaign [for the April 17 elections in the BAC-Basque Autonomous Community], the day after tomorrow, Thursday, is the deadline. As the Aukera Guztiak representatives and Juan Jose Ibarretxe, the Lehendakari (President) of the BAC Government, pointed out after the meeting at the BAC President’s headquarters, they believe that the “political decision” to leave Aukera Guztiak out of the electoral race has already been taken.
Of course, we did not have to wait too long for the Spanish politicos to come up with their usual drivel, as publised at El Pais:
"Ibarrexte is playing the role of ETA's defense attorney rather than demanding that the terrorist organization abandon violence," Socialist spokesman José Blanco declared in a press conference in Madrid.
The PP leader in the Basque Country, María San Gil, went further, accusing Ibarretxe of being "more receptive" to ETA than to victims of the organization's terrorist campaign. "He is closer to the criminals than to the victims," San Gil said in San Sebastian, describing the Basque premier as a "fundamentalist" who has "further divided Basque society."
No comments:
Post a Comment