The legalization of SORTU will not have major political consequences in the short term, as was the case with the legalization of Bildu, since then the sentence opened or closed the door of the elections. Sortu is the heir of Batasuna, and its political-institutional representation is currently represented by Bildu and Amaiur. And in the CAV election, he's going to be at the EBH, now as Sortu has already done.

Its main political consequence at the present time is symbolic, symbolizing the fall of the illegalization wall that was built with a view to the Basque Country. And that is a great event, both because a large number of citizens will be able to exercise their fundamental rights and because they represent a firmer step in the peace process that is going to take place gradually.

On a daily basis, the most concrete political consequences will be felt by the Union’s militants, who will be able to act without the risk of imprisonment for their political activity, or without the need to continuously camouflage their political initiatives, to ban confrontation or to spread the disease.

Yes, they have been warned to deal with them, and to do so the Constitutional Court has adhered to its judgment with a strict warning. But the smell of naphthalene is what emerges from the notes of threat, the stench to the conflictive context of the last decade, the lunch to the most reactionary public opinion in Spain.

The ruling dismantled the Bateragune case and placed Arnaldo Otegi, Rafa Díez, Sonia Jazinto, Miren Zabaleta and Arkaitz Rodríguez at the door of their cells to be responsible for releasing them. Without going into complicated legal arguments, it is clear that if Sortu is legal, keeping those who promoted his creation in prison does not make political sense.

The Constitutional Court (TC) today considered that the Spanish Supreme Court illegalized sortu without evidence, making its suspicions come true, but without setting the course of events well between them. With the same legal arguments, it cannot be demonstrated that Otegi and the other four were ETA instruments or members. In other words, since the National High Court and the Supreme did not have sufficient evidence to issue such a judgment, the conviction can conclude that the principle of innocence has been violated and should be released.

That is logical, but it will not happen tomorrow, of course, the recovery of Spanish public opinion needs time. First, it has to accept the decision of the Constitutional Court to study the judgment and then proceed with it. With the media tumult that led to the Spanish Sortu judgment, the appeal does not seem to be admissible, but it would be dealt with shortly. Furthermore, it cannot be forgotten that the Constitutional is about to be renewed and that in the Sortu judgment six judges in favour and five against have also voted.

In any case, the future has opened the door wide open to sortu. Going back three or four years, neither the most optimistic would have imagined that the then besieged Union would have such a promising future. If you leave behind the avant-garde forms of the past and succeed in merging your activity with social movements, Sortu can create a transformative movement of great potential.