Former judge Manuel Díaz de Rábago, who for ten years was threatened by ETA, has asked for a vote for EH Bildu because it is the left-wing party that "has a real chance of winning" in next Sunday's municipal and regional elections.
EH Bildu has projected a video with the testimony of the former judge, 74, during an electoral act held in Vitoria in which the general coordinator of the coalition, Arnaldo Otegi, participated.
In it, Díaz de Rábago explains that for 32 years he was a labor judge in the Superior Court of Justice of the Basque Country (he presided over the Social Chamber for 13 years), that for a decade he was forced to carry an escort and that even two ETA commandos had their data.
"That does not prevent me today, once the terrorist activity has disappeared and ETA has been dissolved, from supporting and voting for EH Bildu" because "I am from the left above all else" and it is necessary "to unite the vote and concentrate it on a game with a real chance of winning", says the former judge, who clarifies that he feels "Spanish, not Basque" even though he has lived in the Basque Country for 50 years.
In addition, Díaz de Rábago "categorically criticizes the instrumentalization that has been made by the right and the Spanish ultra-right of the EH Bildu lists", something that he has attributed to a desire to "wear down" both the Abertzale coalition and the Government by Pedro Sanchez.
He considers that the resignation of the seven candidates who were once convicted of blood crimes "favors EH Bildu's commitment to a necessary coexistence."
