Popular Party and Vox register in Extremadura their replacement to the Historical Memory Law | Spain

The PP, which governs in solo Extremadura, has consummated this Thursday an agreement with whom its executive companions were until July last year in one of the most controversial aspects of the political agenda: the legislation that replaces the Historical Memory Law. Popular and Vox parliamentary groups in the Extremadura Assembly have registered their proposal to Concord Law, As they have called the Normal that will replace the current Law of Historical and Democratic Memory approved in 2019 during the Cabinet of the Socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara. The proponents of the new legislation defend that the registered text includes the expansion of the recognition of the victims from the Second Republic, that is: since 1931, the victims of terrorism of the democratic stage and in Extremadura, in Extremadura a law that covers these people is already in force. The left sees in the change an eagerness to invisible certain victims, such as those of the LGTBI collective, and a first step to cut rights.

The decision involves a turn in the PP position of Extremadura, which said he did not like the Concord Law proposed by Vox, although neither the historical memory norm approved during the Socialist Executive. The popular agreement has as a consideration to receive the support of Vox to carry out a decree law of fiscal measures.

The two groups on the right of the Assembly consider that the Spanish Constitution of 1978 meant the consolidation not only of a social and democratic state of law, but also the culmination of a reconciliation process between Spaniards that committed more to the future and democracy than with the past. « A reconciliation has its foundation in the recognition of the errors of society at that time, in the need to repair the damage of all victims, one and the other side, to repair the injustices and grievances, without causing other injustices and new relief, and that is why we currently bet on a concord law, » the text collects.

Both parties consider that a law called « Concordia » should not forget the victims of the terrorism of the transition, although they recognize that Extremadura already has Law 2/2020, of March 4, on support, assistance and recognition of victims of terrorism, but notwithstanding that they have necessary that the inclusion of the victims of terrorism in the new law is necessary. History of Spain from 1931 to the present day, a period that has witnessed deep political, social and cultural transformations that have marked the future and identity of our nation.

The new standard states that the Board of Extremadura will adopt the necessary measures for the provision of the search, location, exhumation and identification of the remains of victims that are in an unknown whereabouts, in order to deliver them to their relatives and grant them a dignified grave. The initiative of the PP and Vox leaves no trace of the commissions, organizations and institutions of a regional public nature that would have been created with the 2019 Historical Memory Law that decays.

From the parliamentary groups, the president of Vox, Ángel Pelayo recalled that this initiative was also part of the governance pact signed between both groups that allowed the investiture of María Guardiola as president of the Board of Extremadura. Pelayo ensures that the Historical Memory Law does not contemplate all victims. For his part, the PP spokesman, José Ángel Sánchez Juliá, has stated that this proposal for new legislation is held in the principles and values ​​of the transition and the Constitution, with the recognition and dignification of all the victims, including those of terrorism.

The legal change has raised enormous discontent in the leftist opposition. The opposition groups, PSOE and united by Extremadura have shown their rejection accusing President María Guardiola to « embrace » the extreme right. From these parties they have referred to the agreement as a “El Ventorro Pact” in Extremadura, in reference to the restaurant where the Valencian President, the popular Carlos Mazón, the day of the Dana on October 29. Mazón has reached a Vox pact in the Valencian Community to carry out its budgets in exchange for accepting part of the Ultras Agenda in the field of unaccompanied foreign minors or denial of climate change.

From the PSOE, his spokesman, Piedad Álvarez, says that María Guardiola is focused “between the extreme right and the most extreme right”, which is where, they say, the extreme president feels comfortable. « This law does not seek to repair or recognize the victims, but quite the opposite, it invisible LGTBI victims during the dictatorship and dilute and invisible the suffering of the victims, » ​​said Álvarez, who considers that the repeal of the Historical Memory Law is the first step in the path of cutting rights and end Labor, including LGTBI’s law.

Meanwhile, from United for Extremadura, its spokesman, Irene de Miguel, has affirmed that the PP has endorsed Vox’s proposal in exchange for obtaining the support of this political formation to its fiscal measures. « Two months ago the PP opposed the proposal of Vox’s Law, but now it has had to support it to be able to move its fiscal measures.