Madrid Notice from the Spanish government following the movements of PP and Vox against historical memory in some of the communities where they govern in coalition. If the executives of Aragon, Valencian Country and Castilla y León do not rectify, Pedro Sánchez’s executive will take the “concord” laws they are promoting to the Constitutional Court (TC). The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced this in several interviews and also in a press conference this Monday. “It is inadmissible to whitewash the dictatorship”, he denounced.
The most immediate step is against the repeal of Aragon’s democratic memory law, approved in February by PP and Vox. Torres will summon the Aragonese executive to a bilateral meeting to try to make amends. If he doesn’t, he will go to the Constitutional Court. In the case of Castile and Leon and the Valencian Country, the legislative proposals have not yet been approved but have only been registered in the regional courts, but Torres has warned that if they go ahead they will also end up in the TC.
The texts of these rules registered in less than a week equate the victims of the Second Republic with those of Franco, extending the period they affect to 1931 and removing the condemnation of Franco’s dictatorship and repression. Memorialist entities have denounced that it is a “great act of denialism and contempt for the victims of the Franco regime”. A complaint to which the PSOE and Sumar have joined. The spokeswoman for the Socialists, Esther Peña, criticized in a press conference that “the democratic years of the Second Republic are equated with those of the Franco regime” and regretted that PP and Vox are trying to “return to the starting point from which so hard to get out” during the Transition.
The PP, for its part, has avoided self-criticism and has assured that the “concord” laws agreed with Vox, which will repeal those of historical memory in Castile and Leon and the Valencian Country, “intend to expand the consideration of victims”. In a press conference at the party’s state headquarters, Sémper said that he does not understand that the PSOE rejects it. “Anything that reaches more people seems very good and reasonable to us,” he said. Asked about the fact that these legislative proposals avoid calling Franco a dictatorship, Sémper assured that Franco’s regime “was undoubtedly a dictatorship”. However, the spokesperson for the PP has refused to appreciate that the text does not mention it. “I do not know the content of the law because it has not yet been approved,” he said.
2024-04-01 13:24:10
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