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About Batasuna's illegalization in the Basque Country (english)
Koko , 28.08.2002 15:46
According to a judicial decision issued by Judge Garzon, Batasuna is declared illegal.
Garzon backs his decision on the article 129 from the Spanish Penal Code. This article is supposed to be applied to enterprises and private associations. According to basque journalist Javier Ortiz (
http://www.nodo50.org/javierortiz). "That article never mentions political parties...A political party is the product of the exercise of a fondamental right, this is the political association. One judge, cannot forbide thousands of people (who have never been processed) from exercising a fondamental right".
Then why is this happening? And why does everybody accept it in Spain? According to this journalist "PP and PSOE are creating a clima of Patriotic Histeria, so thousands of lawyers keep quiet. If they kept quiet in the eighties when GAL was shooting suspected members of ETA in the French Basque Country, hoping France would start arresting and extraditing them to Spain. Why would they complain now?
GAL was a group of terrorists, that, with the support of Spanish Socialist Government, commited nearly 23 killings in the French Basque Country.
After today, Batasuna will have no right to use a local for it´s activities. It´s locals do not receive water or electricity, they cannot organize a public event and their website will be shutdown, for the first time in Popular Party's Spain.
Again we are back to that situation. But now they use the law. And when the law doesn´t please PP, they change it. In this case they create a new law for political parties. Aznar says that this law is a tool so democracy can defend itself. But no long ago, he didn´t hold that opinion. Gaspar Llamazares, leader of IU (Izquierda Unida, which stands for United Left) reminded how Aznar had declared to "Epoca", Spanish political magazine, that a measure of that kind would have no utility. It was individuals that had to be prosecuted.
Then why this sudden change of opinion.
We have to go back one year in time. On the 13th of May 2001, the Basque Autonoumous Comunity was celebrating it´s elections. Two main candidates were trying to gain the presidency. On one side Ibarretxe, from the Basque Nationalist Party (a moderate democristian nationalist party), he was backed by EA (a smaller party of similar political line). Ibarretxe had been governing in minority the basque government, getting support from Euskal Herritarrok (that was the name by the time of what is now Batasuna). After ETA had broken the truce it had called after the Lizarra agreement had been signed (
http://www.lizarra-garazi.org/02default.htm), basque government had managed to govern in minority as it broke political relationships with Euskal Herritarrok.
For those elections, PP and PSOE had agreed to support each other. PP with its' candidate Jaime Mayor Oreja (who had just left his seat in the Spanish Government as Internal Affairs minister) presented itself as the alternative to 15 years of nationalist rule. Jaime Mayor based his campaign in flaming moderate nationalists for having agreed with the "terrorists". PP and PSOE where quite sure they would manage to obtain the majority. "The important thing" said Mayor Oreja, "was to have a very high turn-up. This would mean that non-nationalists would show no fear and vote".
The campaign was very polarized. And polls from Spanish Media were showing non-nationalists as winners with a very narrow margin. Mayor Oreja, was right, at least partially. People's turnup was very high. The highest in the history of the Basque autonomous Region. But he was wrong in one thing. He didn´t win. Euskal Herritarrok had lost 80.000 votes, those votes benefited PNV-EA moderate nationalist coalition. And also but less EB (Basque branch of United left). PP and PSOE had also scored high. But not enough. For the following four years the basque autonomous government (governing Alava, Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia) would remain under moderate nationalist rule.
THe reactions didn´t wait. Ibarretxe said that he would work towards a peaceful basque country based on dialogue, respect to human rights and respect to the right of the basques to decide what to do in the future.
Aznar, said "basque society is not mature enough to understand the change".
The "Circulo de Empresarios Vascos" (bosses' association) warned the basque Government to respect the constitution, and disliked the presence of Madrazo a communist from United Left.
After the 11th of september, the whole political panorama shakes in the Basque Country. During all this time ETA is been murdering local basque councilors from PP and PSOE.
In this period, PP backs unconditionally the USA in its' bomb raids in Afghanistan. They want to gain full support from Bush administration.
And both PP and PSOE start working on a project to turn Batasuna Illegal. Why? THey say Batasuna and ETA are exactly the same thing, and that Batasuna uses it´s official face, but it belongs to ETA.
On monday, 26th of september the spanish parliament was voting in favour to start the process to turn Batasuna illegal. On that same day Garzon shuts down Batasuna. Both paths converge on the same goal. Putting in question spanish judiciary independence.
Why has Aznar changed his opinion? (I concluded long ago, that Garzon likes notoriety and he is ready to do anything to be the star).
Aznar didn´t want to turn Batasuna´s illegalization in a short process. He'd rather take as much political advantage as possible. What is then his goal? THe basque government.
Illegalizing Batasuna, means putting basque government under high pressure. Garzon has been faster it´s the only difference.
If the basque government had not taken its police to close the offices of Batasuna, the central one, would have decided it is not fulfilling the law. THis could jeopardize basque autonomy. The central gov. has full right to block it if it considers that the regional one does not fulfill the law.
Once the Basque Government closes Batasuna offices, we are further away from a political solution. Ibarretxe is been forced by the government, while his party opposes the law, the same applies to basque society, polls were strongly against that law, while in the same laws support to violence was very small.
Now radical and moderate nationalists are openly confronted again. As a consequence, the basque government will be destabilized, and thus easier to the PP, to try to get to power in the Basque Government. That is the hidden agenda. PP has proven itself it cannot win the basque elections, so they try a shortcut. To see if it works. It is a kind of auto coup d'état.
Now, what will it happen to Batasuna? Now they will no have locals were to meet some of them. It seems that police is only closing political offices, no bars (Herriko taberna. People's bar).
But if these also get closed, thousands of people who had been organized politically will find themselves in a situation of semiclandestinity. Meetings will happen in private houses (Will it become illegal to have more than twelve people at home?, Will they put microfones everywhere?)
The future in this country is very dark. Batasuna supporters, will take it for granted that the only way out is now violence. And PP will try to turn the Basque Country into a policial state (even more) to control nearly everything. They want to remove the pressure valve. Time will say how smart the idea was.
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ONE MORE ALTERNATIVE31.08.2002 - 16:06It is true, the logic indicates a violent reaction from Batasuna, that is exactly what the Spanish government is trying to attain, it is a tactical distraction learned probably from recent allies, if they can divide the Basque society they will be way ahead in their purpose. On the other hand, this could be a very important opportunity to react differently....,, where Batasuna is now (apparently dissolved) the rest of the nationalists parties should be too (temporary dissolved), regardless ETA, Spaniard and French parties. Once the parties are in a "dormant stage", the occasion to execute an independence referendum (already elaborated) with no political afiliation at all, will be optimum, the right time, before any other kind of elections are carried out. With the results in hand of such referendum, the Basque society would have an extraordinary element of vinculation guaranteed by the Basque population itself, to take the next step(whichever is decided by it) even in a unilateral way. XAB |