Marta Belver Madrid
Madrid
Updated Monday, April 1, 2024-10:08
The central Executive is going to appeal to the Constitutional Court (TC) the repeal of the autonomous laws promoted in regions governed by the PP and Vox to limit the effects of the state Democratic Memory Law. In exchange, Aragon has approved regulations based on "concord" similar to those that have begun to be processed in Castilla y León and the Valencian Community to "recognize all victims, including those of terrorism."
In La Moncloa they consider that the right-wing parties are trying to "whitewash Francoism" by equating "the years of totalitarianism and the dictatorship with a newspaper of a democratic regime such as the Second Republic." "Four decades of absence of freedoms, of deprivation of rights, of disappearances, of torture... cannot be equated with a democratic period. That is inadmissible," Ángel Víctor Torres, Minister of Territorial Policy and Memory, warned this Monday. Democratic, in an interview on TVE.
The initial step of the Government of the nation will be to try to reach a bilateral understanding with that of Aragon, whose new law approved in February they believe "violates the principles of International Law" and that, among other measures, withdraws any tribute to the people who lost their lives in Nazi concentration camps. If the Executive chaired by the
popular
Jorge Azcón "does not agree to sit down or does not share the legal postulates", as they estimate will happen, they will go to the TC.
"In the case of the Valencian Community and Castilla y León, the important thing would be for these proposals to decline. What the PP, forced by Vox and giving way to the PP, intends to whitewash the dictatorship (...), which in article 1 of the Democratic Memory Law is condemned," Torres stressed.