President Pedro Sánchez has appropriated the "defeat of ETA" to counter the criticism he has received even from his own party for his pacts with EH Bildu. "We defeated ETA and the right cannot stand that," he said in Vitoria, just a dozen kilometers away from Legutio, one of the municipalities in which Eh Bildu presents a convicted murderer as a candidate.
The leader of the Basque Socialists Eneko Andueza has made clear his loyalty to the President.