![]() ![]() Sánchez’s parliamentary reliance on EH Bildu and Catalan nationalists has been a source of outrage for the opposition throughout his tenure. Patxi López, spokesman for Sánchez’s socialists, when asked about the inclusion of the convicted candidates, said he didn’t “like it at all”. Some close to the government have also admitted unease at EH Bildu’s candidates. “Just imagine an electoral list full of supremacists who were murderers and 20 years later they are in a party,” said Maite Pagazaurtundúa, an MEP for the centre-right Ciudadanos and whose brother Joseba was killed by Eta. The leader of the conservative Popular Party (PP), Alberto Nunez Feijoo, warned that the government should “not rely on a party like EH Bildu after seeing members of a terrorist group and people convicted of murder on its lists”. ![]() EH Bildu has fielded candidates with terror-related convictions in the past, but the fact the party’s five members of Congress have provided parliamentary support to the coalition government of socialist Pedro Sanchez has made this campaign particularly contentious. ![]() Although it no longer exists, Eta has remained an issue for the unionist right. ![]()
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