PP and Vox erase democratic memory with a law that maintains exhumations, protects vestiges of Francoism and includes victims of terrorism

He People’s Party and Vox They agreed last June on 50 measures that would be the pillars of their Government actions at the head of the Generalitat and among those agreements was the repeal of “the norms that attack reconciliation in historical matters.” The Law of Historical Memory of the Valencian Community was in the crosshairs of Abascal’s party, which nine months later will become the Law of Concord.

The two partners have brought to the Cortes a battery of legislative reforms through the urgent means of the proposed law that will establish the new regulatory framework of his government. The multilingualism law, the Punt law or the Transparency law and the law governing the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency will be reviewed, and the Historical Memory Law will be erased. “It is sectarian and partisan. She only remembered some and forgot others. Now we are going to remember everyone,” explained the Vox spokesperson, Jos Mara Llanos, in the Cortes, surrounded by the popular Miguel Barrachina and Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca, general secretary of the PPCV. In this reform, it was Vox who led the way.

This Law aims to displace “civil war terms” and therefore expands the condition of victim to all those who have suffered “social, political violence, terrorism or ideological or religious persecution in the Valencian Community from 1931 to the present day”, collects the text. “We recognize the crimes of the Second Republic, which some consider to have been a democracy and others to have been a coup, and to those of ETA and other leftist groups such as FRA or the GRAPO“Llanos explained. All of them are equated with those included in the state Law of Democratic Memory and also with that of aid to victims of terrorism.

The new text, which will go ahead with the majority of the PP and Vox in the Cortes, continues to recognize the right of the victims of “investigation, location, exhumation and identification of missing persons” and to the repair and preservation of their memory “avoiding any attempt at revenge and manipulation of our history that encourages confrontation between Spaniards.” Llanos promised that “reparation for the victims will be maintained” and aid will not be taken away. The articles also state that “the exhumation processes” initiated under the umbrella of the norm that will be repealed will not decline, but the rest of the “procedures initiated and not completed” will do so upon its entry into force.

The standard also includes the creation of the Valencian Concordia Unita department attached to which holds the responsibilities of Transparency – which is currently the Presidency of the Generalitat – and which will be in charge of the processes of aid to victims.

Your job will be defined by a Strategic Plan of Democratic Concord Approved by the Consell and in charge, with the rank of deputy director, there must be a university professor who is an expert in criminal law, history, constitutional law, legal history, philosophy, political science or sociology.

Protected sites and remains

Another novelty of this Law is that it provides for the creation of a catalog of vestiges and places or places of special significance. This means that they can be protected symbols raised during the Franco regime that are considered of special relevance. The intention of the Administrations to eliminate many of them in compliance with the Historical Memory Law has caused a lot of controversy in recent years.

The Generalitat will commission experts in cultural heritage and transparency to prepare this cataloguing, which will also include “spaces, buildings or places” because “facts of singular relevance due to their historical, symbolic significance or their impact on collective memory” have been developed in them. of events that led to acquiring the status of victim.

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