Spaniards do not believe the terrorism of ETA to end all

57.4% of the Spanish sees "little" or "nothing" likely that the terrorism of ETA disappears definitively and 46.3% thought that the Spanish and French Governments should not talk with the band, although confirmation of its total abandonment of armed activity, according to a poll released yesterday.The last survey of the Centre of sociological investigations (CIS), public body, reveals that 84.1%, is pronounced against to pardons prisoners etarras, at the time that 42.4% rejects the approach of these prisoners to the Basque country.

According to this barometer, produced between 2 and 9 November, when the band announced last October that put end to their armed activity definitively terrorism ranks tenth of the citizens, concerns that it only cites it as problem 3.7 percent of the respondents.

ETA, which in its more than four decades of activity has killed more than 800 people, announced the 20 past of u000aOctober the "cessation of armed activity", although not its dissolution or delivery of the weapons.

Said in a statement, the terrorist group called "the Governments of Spain and France" to open a direct dialogue process aimed to solve "the consequences of the conflict", as it is often the Organization refer to the situation of prisoners, among other things.

The ETA announcement comes at a time in which the terrorist group has more than seven hundred members in prison, one of the most high numbers of his half-century of history, according to legal sources and prison.

After the release of the terrorist group, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Bilbao (North Spanish), convened by the Basque pro-independence left, to require the transfer to the Basque country of the imprisoned etarras and ensure that "no amnesty will not be peace".

According to the poll disseminated yesterday, unemployment, with 83%, and u000aeconomic troubles, with 48.2%, remain at the head of the major concerns of the Spaniards.

The deep crisis affecting the country translates into nearly five million unemployed, the stagnant economy and sovereign debt beset in international markets.

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