Angela,
Sí que es coincidencia / Yes, it is a coincidence indeed.
tanuki,
ETA has "participated" in all Spanish National Election campaigns, usually killing someone seven to fifteen days before the voting day. It is very very unlikely that they do not contribute -in their way- to this one.
The information I have indicates a possible agreement between the Socialist party and ETA in order to stage a surrendering of some weapons before the elections.
So, I think in this situation, the far Right scarecrow is being brought into life in order to identify the citizens that might tell that it is all a deception, a staging before the elections and nothing else, as far right people.
As in the last
national campaign, the pieces are begun to be moved into their "combat stations", so when something happens, the strategists of tension can lean on them to carry out their agitation operation.
Both the Socialist party and ETA have a lot to lose in this elections, I am sure they are preparing something, although ETA brutality may hinder a final agreement in the last minute.
Regarding the Socialists and the Far Right, -I owe you an article about the Socialists' well covered-up "dangerouses liasons"- their relations have always been good.
Already in the early 1970's, the secret services of the Francoist regime protected them in order to create a barrier against Communism. In the late 1970's, the Spanish Socialist Party was secretly financed, among others, by the far Right German millionaire Flick.
His father had been judged at Nuremberg.
There has been always a good relation between the far Right and the Spanish Socialist party and, usually in continental Europe, a good relation between the far right and the Socialists since Bismark used them to crush the classic liberals of the German parliament between 1870-1880, founding the traditional German National Socialist ideology that a tavern brawler called Hitler simply dared to carry out to its final consequences.