The Prosecutor's Office of the National Court investigated whether the 44 convicted ETA members, seven of them for blood crimes, included in the Bildu lists in the Basque Country and Navarra for the municipal elections meet the requirements to run for public office and continue in the candidatures.
The Public Ministry opened investigative proceedings as a result of the complaint filed this Thursday by the Dignity and Justice association, chaired by Daniel Portero, son of Luis Portero, the chief prosecutor of the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia assassinated by ETA in 2000 .
In this complaint, the association requested that it be determined whether the prisoners -whose numbers and reasons for which they were sentenced by the National Court were included in the text presented to the Prosecutor's Office- have fully complied with the sentences of disqualification from holding public office and for passive suffrage, as required by the Organic Law of General Electoral Regime (Loreg) to be able to attend an election.
"This association is unaware of the settlements carried out with respect to each of the candidates convicted of terrorism who intend to run in the next municipal and regional elections, since it has not been involved in the respective procedures, but, in attention to the background information that will be are going to expose, it is possible that one of them has it pending compliance and may attend a cause of ineligibility of article 6.2 Loreg, as well as could realize the commission of a crime of breach of sentence, anticipated and penalized in article 468 of the Penal Code, having in force and pending completion of a sentence of absolute or special disqualification for employment or public office", could be read in the complaint filed this Thursday.
The Prosecutor's Office of the National Court has followed up on the matter and opened some proceedings in which different tests will be carried out. Basically review the convictions of the candidates and confirm if the disqualification sentences where the sentences are settled correctly, according to tax sources transferred to ABC.
The Chief Prosecutor of the National Court, Jesús Alonso, and Lieutenant Prosecutor Marta Durántez will deal with them for the political significance of the matter at the gates of the elections, giving priority to these proceedings over others. They will be the ones who decide if it is appropriate to continue or file them and determine the jurisdiction of the Public Prosecutor's Office for it.
