Editorial: El Español

• Prominent leaders of Junts, ERC and BNG back the demonstration in favor of the liberation of ETA prisoners.
• This support for ETA prisoners can be interpreted as a demand for legal impunity, using the Amnesty Law to benefit specific criminals.
• 142 of the 155 ETA prisoners are already in prisons in Euskadi and Navarra following the dispersion policy of the Government of Pedro Sánchez.
• The separatist organization abertzale calls for the 'return home' of Basque prisoners, and EH Bildu speaks of 'repatriation of Basque political prisoners'.
• Catalan and Basque separatists use similar rhetoric to justify amnesty for Catalan coup plotters and ETA prisoners.
• These separatist movements, which have been advised by former ETA collaborators, reinforce the alliance among nationalist groups.
• The Basque Government now holds penitentiary competences.

Conclusion: The support shown by the leaders of Junts and ERC, coupled with the use of similar rhetorics and negotiation with former ETA collaborators, reinforce a common separatist front.

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