Spanish Opposition Party (PP) facing death threat charges.

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Monday June 13, 2005 22:03

by carme

Charges were brought against members of the main Opposition party the PP today, after a demonstration organised by the second largest political organisation in Spain saw numerous banners calling for the death of the leader of the Catalan ERC party, Josep Lluis Carod Rovira who is the leader of one of the coalition parties in Catalonia.

The President of the "home rule" Catalan Generalitat, Pasqual Maragall called for the apologies of the front bench of the PP party, ( who sit in Europe in the liberal block ) for the threats which were made during a demonstration in Salamanca in central Spain on friday.

The demonstration followed increased street activity by the radicalised PP party who had gathered hundreds of thousands the week before to demonstrate against any peace process with the Basque region.

Amidst accusations of a "lynching mentality" the front bench of the PP party, have refused to answer the charges of irresonsible mobilisation, and are claiming it is "difficult" to control posters, yet paid for the demonstrators to arrive, having hired buses for them. They are now preparing a homophobic display ostensibly under a "pro-family" banner for the capital Madrid on the 18th of June which shall be followed by a regional election which they are expected to lose.

The incident might be seen as a renewed fascist tendency and worries some observers in that the spokesperson of the M11 March 11th bombing in Madrid, a socialist Pilar Manjon left her home city due to death threats in the last week. Threats which she has attributed to members of the PP.
The case which is under investigation, casts a slur of continuing allegations by the PP that ETA and not islamic fundamentalists were responsible for the bombing in which almost 200 people over 50 of whom were migrants were killed in train bombs in 2004.
The release of intelligence files confirmed that the then PP government under Aznar had lied to the public and been forewarned of an islamic fundamentalist threat.

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