Bildu celebrates the new Memory Law: "We are going to put the story of an exemplary Transition in check"

• Bildu Congress supports the Sánchez Memory Law after managing to extend it until December 1983

The

will achieve next week, with a year of delay and a package of substantial amendments agreed with Bildu, the approval of the

.

The rule aims to establish the "truth" and do "justice, recognition and reparation" for the victims of the

demand

, investigate the violations of human rights committed since the approval of the

in 1978 until December 31, 1983, when Felipe González already occupied the presidency of the Government.

Bildu's spokeswoman in

,

, assured yesterday that "a path has been opened to put in check the story of the

."

With this law that the Government wants to have ready for its entry into force at the turn of the summer, Franco's regime is condemned and its illegality is established as well as that of all the sentences and sanctions imposed for ideological or religious reasons;

The aim is to dignify and repair the victims of the war and the dictatorship with the creation of an investigation commission and a prosecutor's office, and it seeks to put together a historical narrative that values ​​the fight in defense of freedom and democracy that will be Compulsory study in

and

.

The text that will be submitted to the vote of the

next week after the

, will not have the support of ERC because it does not repeal the

of 1977. For now, this group is inclined to abstention.

The law does incorporate an additional provision agreed with Bildu in exchange for their votes, by virtue of which investigations into human rights violations will also be extended to the Transition period, from the approval of the Constitution until the end of 1983. To do this An academic technical commission made up of independents will be created to analyze cases of rights violations so that their victims are also recognized, but their work, according to the Government, will not give rise to legal proceedings.

For the Executive, this provision is of minor importance and responds to the possibility that exists in the "transitional processes" that some violations are committed.

Furthermore, socialist sources emphasize that it was decided to set the deadline for this period at December 31, 1983 and not 1982 to avoid the reproach that only the

government stage was subject to scrutiny .

The start of the LAGs

• Lasa and Zabala.

  It was the first action attributed to the GAL.

  The two ETA members were kidnapped in France on October 15, 1983 and later tortured, murdered and secretly buried.

• Marey and 'Txapela'.

  Before the end of the year there were two other relevant actions.

  On December 4, Segundo Marey was kidnapped by mistake and on December 28, Mikel Goikoetxea, 'Txapela', was murdered.

They also assure that there is no place to re-investigate the criminal activity of the

because it has already been tried and because their victims do not meet the definition of fighters for freedom and the consolidation of democracy.

On the contrary, for Bildu it is a particularly relevant point.

His spokesperson in Congress, Mertxe Aizpurua, yesterday celebrated the pact with the PSOE and stressed in an interview on Hamaika Telebista: "We have opened a path to put in check the story of the exemplary Transition."

The leader of the nationalist left

a triumphant account of her last-minute support for the rule promoted by the Government of Pedro Sánchez.

According to her vision, the new law "will review the human rights violations that occurred up to 1983", the year in which the GAL began to attack.

She defended that the "Francoist structure" continued beyond 1975, the year of

's death , and assumed that the law would make it easier to build an "inclusive memory" for the

Left .

Among the successes of his negotiation with Sánchez, he highlighted having managed to "declare the Francoist courts illegal and annul the penalties imposed" by them, in addition to "bringing to light the silenced reality that has been denied so many times."

Despite the fact that the law tries to broaden the focus to become, as its name indicates, a “democratic” memory norm, it does not make any allusion to ETA terrorism or its victims.

Precisely this gap is one of the arguments used by the opposition groups -PP, Vox and Ciudadanos- to announce their vote against.

These parties accuse the Government of accepting as "co-author" of the law and the democratic story a formation -EH Bildu- "heir to the murderers of ETA".

The opposition maintains that the law is approved at a particularly inappropriate time, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the murder at the hands of ETA of the PP councilor

and also of the kidnapping of the prison official

, and it is done like this, they say, because the government needs to wink at its partners and throw down a veil that hides its own deterioration.

symbolic places

• Summit Palace.

  In the agreement with Bildu is the transfer of this building in San Sebastián, where Lasa and Zabala were tortured and murdered and which is currently used by the Government.

• Fort of San Cristobal.

  The use of this building in Pamplona, ​​which was used as a prison during the Franco regime and where a massacre of prisoners in the war took place, is also changed.

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