Mayor Oreja criticizes Sánchez for attending the tribute to Miguel Ángel Blanco after agreeing "with ETA on Democratic Memory"

MADRID, 7 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former Minister of the Interior Jaime Mayor Oreja has criticized that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is going to attend this Sunday the tribute in Ermua (Vizcaya) for the 25th anniversary of the murder of the former PP councilor Miguel Ángel Blanco after having agreed "with ETA" the new law of Democratic Memory.

"It makes me angry and sad to see how Sánchez can intervene in the act of 25 years, who is the person who agreed with ETA a week ago on Democratic Memory", he expressed in reference to the pact between the Government and Bildu for which include in the new norm the recognition of the victims of human rights violations until 1983 in exchange for their support for this law.

In an interview in Escudo Digital, collected by Europa Press, Mayor Oreja acknowledged that seeing Bildu in the Congress of Deputies "confirms what the Government did" which, in his words, opened a "badly named peace process with ETA".

"The defeat of ETA has never occurred because it is not just a terrorist organization, it is a rupture project," he assured, while detailing that the terrorist organization "was born convinced that the PNV was not going to break Spain ". "It is the expression of a total secularization of the Basque Country", she added.

Thus, he has asserted that Bildu "does not exist", just as "Batasuna never existed", but that it was the ETA process. In this key, he has emphasized that the Government of Sánchez is "the need to support ETA a process that governs."

In relation to the release of José Antonio Ortega Lara -- who has also recently turned 25 -- and the murder of Blanco, he stressed that they are "inseparable." "I don't understand why one act is done without thinking about the other because they are linked, they are part of the same episode, there are not two acts, they were two actions," she asserted.

In this key, Mayor Oreja has stressed that the PNV had a "panic" of Ermua because "they thought that the end of ETA promoted by Spain could be the end of nationalism and, therefore, they embraced a year later in an agreement with ETA" in the Estella Pact of September 1998.

"The members of the PNV panicked, thinking that the social domain they exercised in the Basque country was getting out of hand," he concluded.

Regarding the health of the coalition government, the former minister has pointed out that it is possible that the "defeat of the popular front will be seen in a short time". Thus, he trusts that there is a political and cultural alternative to this stage that, in his opinion, "has confused Spain because a coalition has not governed."

For Mayor Oreja, this Executive of PSOE and United We Can is a "misnamed peace process". The end of this stage, for the former leader, would go through a political alternative of the Popular Party and Vox. "It is evident that the Popular Front must lose," he emphasized.