The perception of the government's line will be the same. During the "peace process" they pursued hard ETA and Batasuna, but the negotiators. After Barajas bomb, the Audiencia Nacional is pursuing harder the political supporters of ETA. Look to the mayor of Arrasate, she is jail for not condemning Elías Carrasco assassination (they'll use apology of terrorism or whatever thing).

I think that most parties in Spain have hard fights inside the party, and one of the main reasons is precisely ETA. ETA gives fresh air to hard-liners and at the same time doesn't let make policy in the ordinary way to anyone, it perverts the democracy in lots of fronts: MSM, justice system, ordinary life for lots of politicians and judges, hate and fear in military and police, and their families. It distorts the relations between lots of people.

During the "peace process", I think that most Basques expected to see some prisoners of ETA in Basque Country prisons or around before Christmas, but i didn't happen and, as always, hard-liners in ETA won. I think that ZP was too tied by PP opposition and MSM noise, and at the same time Batasuna people was desperating. Barajas bomb broke everything.

The only good is that the fracture of Spain discourse and the police end of ETA, didn't got a victory in elections to PP.

Catalan people rewarded to PSOE the new estatut and Basque people rewarded PSOE the attempt of a peace process.

The problem, anyway, is that the 10-12 percent of Basque society supports ETA indirectly, supporting Batasuna, and its leaders haven't enough courage to leave ETA alone and condemn openly its violence, and want to use leverage in their negotiations.

On the other hand, there are about a thousand prisoners spread out as far as possible from Basque Country, making their families lives harder. A very dubious Tribunal called Audiencia Nacional, a very hard division between judges of all levels...

The only way to win a war against this 10-12 percent people is through more democracy, not with less. But ETA makes it very very hard.

The rest live well enough with this low level intensity violence, and you know, if you are not suffering too much political tactics work for their own interest.

We basques are only a 5 percent of Spain, but distort a lot Spanish political parties' ordinary strategics.

The fights inside PP are interesting, but we'll see if Mariano wins in a couple of years. I doubt it.

Good night!