Javier Ortega Zaragoza
Saragossa
Updated Thursday, February 15, 2024-15:42
Politics Aragonese and Catalan will no longer be "own" languages of Aragon
The Aragón norm approves the Democratic Memory Law that calls for the repeal of the 1977 Amnesty Law
The Cortes of Aragon have approved this Thursday the repeal of the
Democratic Memory Law
, approved in the last legislature by the Government of the socialist Javier Lambán and which in some aspects surpassed the
state law on Historical Memory
.
They have voted in favor of the repeal of PP and Vox, who govern in coalition, and they have voted against the opposition: PSOE, Podemos,
CHA
, Teruel Exist and IU.
While the debate was taking place, fifty people belonging to memorial associations demonstrated at the doors of the Aragonese parliament to show their rejection with the slogan "You will repeal the law, but not the Memory."
Likewise, the Government of Pedro Sánchez has also criticized the repeal of the Aragonese law through the mouth of the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory,
Ángel Víctor Torres
, who has been "saddened" and has criticized PP and Vox: "It is astonishing that representatives elected at the polls want to leave undemocratic vestiges. They do not vote for you democratically to defend Francoism."
In statements to the media, he added that the central government will "apply" the Democratic Memory law, reaching out "to those who think differently" about "whether they want for their children 40 years of silence and absence of freedoms or that they can express their opinion freely." and without fear."
Concord Plan
PP and Vox have defended that now is when "all victims begin to be recognized" and have announced, to replace the law, a Plan of Concord, which recognizes all victims, including those of terrorism.
Vox spokesperson,
Santiago Morón
, has expressed satisfaction at seeing how the "disastrous" Democratic Memory law was repealed. In his opinion, it was "a law that has been a political tool of social agitation, which has served to open wounds and construct an official story or truth, designed with the objective of confronting 21st century Spanish society." .
Morón has defended that the
Spanish Constitution
has allowed "peaceful coexistence and the constitution of a rule of law." He pointed out that "we were facing a law that attacked freedom of thought, conscience and academics."
The PP spokesperson,
Ana Marín
, has maintained that they are "heirs of the Constitution" and that, at the time, when the now repealed law was approved "the PP was denied its place."
"We believe that concord and memory are the pillar of our democracy," he indicated, while reiterating that the new Concord Plan will maintain exhumations. "Today we will begin to recognize all the victims."
Daniel Alastruey
(PSOE) has told the Government parties that "they have tried to distort history. It is a law that made all victims equal." He has regretted that Aragon becomes part of the "sad and short list" of autonomies that do not have their own regulations on democratic memory.
Podemos deputy,
Andoni Corrales
, has argued that "today the Democratic Memory law is more necessary than ever."
He has done so after remembering that there are two general directors of the regional Executive, belonging to Vox, "sycophants of
Franco
and his regime." For this reason, he has asked Azcón to pay "little attention to his partners", since he is "a democratic man."