the leader of The PP, Paul Married, considers that the victims of the dictatorship have been already repaired during the democracy, and “in the next few days, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Spanish Constitution”, will present a text alternative to the law of historical memory, the so-called “law of harmony”.
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In the exposition of motives of the law proposal, the PP will recall that since democracy, the exproprations of francoism have received 16,000 million. So what has been said this Thursday in an interview on Es radio referring to the pensions of widows, or of officers of the Army. “Had not that to make a law of historical memory. The greatness of the Transition also included aid for families to seek the remains of their loved ones. There is that roll back those reforms that have been harmful. The law of memory is not good,” he added. Married has not given more details of the content of his law of harmony, although he has said that would affect the education and public spaces.
Since the year 2000 have opened up some 700 graves from the franco era with more than 8,000 victims, and many more remain open. In Andalusia, Betpipo for example, are doing the preliminary studies for the opening of a grave in Cordoba, where it is thought that there may be more than 4,000 bodies, and another in Seville, with close to a thousand. The Government of Mariano Rajoy not repealed the law of historical memory, but reduced to 0 your budget so that some of the exhumations have been carried out thanks to donations from abroad (such as a union of electricians Norwegian). The Executive is updating the map of mass graves and intends to assume in full the task of search, exhumation and identification of victims, but may not do so if it is not approved new Budgets.
The PP criticizes the law of historical memory because it understands that it is an attack on the Transition, when your first two paragraphs are precisely a praise of that period. The law of historical memory has divided the popular and leaders like Esperanza Aguirre criticized openly to Rajoy for not having repealed. Now it is one of the themes star also of the campaign of Vox, the party that takes the votes for the PP to its right. “I cannot criticize my exvotante. What I have to do is go back to enamorarles,” said Married this Thursday.
The popular president has also insisted that he not spend “not one euro in unearthing and re-burying Franco”. The PP has finally decided not to resort to the Constitutional the plan to move the remains of the dictator of the Valley of the Fallen because it no longer is done by means of an urgency procedure, but with a reform of the law of memory in the Courts.
