07/V/14
JUDIRICAL ABERRATIONS IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY A POLITICAL GENOCIDE

Towards Independence and Socialism
EUSKAL HERRIA-BASQUE COUNTRY STEP BY STEP
ASKAPENA's information N. 177

The PSOE has lost the north. On its fantasmal "negotiations process" it has not been able to force Basque patriotic left wing so that it should resign to its exigencies for independence. That challenging attitude by a redoubt of Vascones (ancient Basque citizens) is intolerable. The State must extinguish and politically eliminate them. As we are within a supposedly democratic State, and it is not feasible a physical genocide, there is no more remedy left than to apply political genocide: depriving the Basque patriotic left wing of its civil and political fundamental rights.

While the conversations continued, supposedly to make some sort of negotiation; the PSOE has kept activated the Law of Political Parties as a dissuasive threat in order to condition the conversations. The municipal and provincial elections were the key point: or the Basque patriotic left wing surrendered or the Law in its entire rigor would be applied against the pro independence left wing party to prevent the exercise of its citizen rights.

The strategy by the PSOE was criminal but not free of difficulties: on one side the Law, in spite of its facist nature has its own limitations. On the other hand, the Basque patrotic left wing has put on the table a series of options: the inscription of a new political party, ASB, the presentation of 260 lists with the original denomination of "sozialista abertzaleak" (patriotic Socialists); all these candidacies were electoral platforms, with no ties to any party; undoubtedly left wing, promoted by 85,000 citizens, who had endorsed with their signature the presentation of such local platforms. Thirdly, a legal political party for 30 years -Basque Nationalistic Action- displayed other 252 candidacies. What to do before this avalanche of electoral supplies?

The first step taken by the PSOE has been to reject the inscription and registry of the new party -ASB-, since from PSOE understands that it is a continuation of Batasuna (the Basque patriotic left wing party). The Office of the public prosecutor of the State opposed itself to this new political party and the 61 room of the High Court accepted the demand of ilegalización. ASB's defense displayed its allegations and demanded the celebration of an oral Vista. The Supreme Court accepted the proposal, but making it almost coincide -16th of May- with the elections dates in May, that will be celebrated on the 27th of this month. The lawyers of the defense opposed themselves to the delay in the celebration of the Vista, since an apparently trivial question, like is the one of the calendar, made, in fact, impossible for the new party to participate in the election campaign, in the event (nothing probable) that it should be legalized.

At dawn of the 5th of May, the Spanish High Court has made illegal the 260 popular platforms and the 130 candidacies of ANV, that the Government had opposed, that guaranteed that 85,000 citizens, supposedly free, had the chance to vote the political party they identify with. There will be no chance for this.

The spanish *"Inquisición" is active once again