The Cortes of Aragon repeal the Democratic Memory Law to "recognize all victims without distinction"

ZARAGOZA, 15 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Plenary Session of the Cortes of Aragon approved this Thursday, through the single reading procedure, the PP and VOX bill to repeal the Democratic Memory Law to "recognize all victims without distinction." The proposing groups and the PAR have voted in favor, while PSOE, Aragón-Teruel Existen, CHA, Podemos and IU voted against.

The PP deputy Ana Marín has recognized "all the victims without exception" and has asked "if we are really incapable of overcoming what happened 100 years ago, I am not saying forget it, but overcome it", blaming the parties of the left that his speeches "are more typical of 1940 than 2024."

"Today we will begin to recognize all the victims," ​​Marín continued, mentioning "those of the war, the Franco dictatorship and the terrorism that shook us all so hard and so close." He has remembered the two civil guards who died days ago in Barbate (Cádiz), run over by a drug boat, and has expressed his support and respect for the State Security Forces and Bodies.

"We are heirs of the 1978 Constitution and no matter how hard they try, we are not going to move from there," emphasized the PP deputy, who stressed that "all the victims were victims, all of them, whoever they were, whatever they did." whatever they did, whatever uniform they wore, all without distinction deserve to be honored and deserve our consideration.

From VOX, Santiago Morón has asked "what need there was, after 40 years, to break with the principles of the transition" and "where they want to take us this time", rejecting "the strategy of confrontation." He has stressed that "now the majority will of the Aragonese is contrary to this law."

He stated that the Democratic Memory Law "attacks freedom of thought, conscience, expression and teaching" and established "an official narrative", after which he snapped at the left-wing parties that "have unearthed Franco, thanks to you is in the political debate more now than 30 years ago.

Representing the PSOE, Daniel Alastuey has asserted that "the Democratic Memory Law is being stolen" by "revanchism and revenge", adding that with the repeal the democratic present is being reviewed to "adapt the historical narrative to the Francoist narrative." .

"We are throwing away a law that sought harmony, that through the recognition of all the victims allowed us to turn the page and establish a common story regarding the problems that our country has had in the last two centuries, a story that would allow us to cement a State democratic," said Alastuey.

He also said that PP and VOX wanted "immediate repeal, with bad manners and viciousness" and lamented that "this country has had a tormented history, we Spaniards have tried, for better or worse, to found a democratic State for two centuries." stating that "the first precedent was the Constitution of 1812 and there were wars, deaths and, finally, it could culminate in the Second Republic, with a democratic Constitution; basis for denigrating the Second Republic." The Democratic Memory Law "equalized the victims", he has settled.

CHA deputy José Luis Soro has appealed to the principles of "truth, reparation, justice and coexistence", included in "the law that has just been charged", stating that "the issue is not what happened 50 years ago, but what has changed since five years ago.

The parliamentarian of Aragón-Teruel Existen Pilar Buj has considered that repealing this law "is not at all doing justice to all the victims", adding that "only by building would justice be done to the victims."

For the Podemos deputy, Andoni Corrales, "what is necessary now is for the state law to be complied with" and has criticized the PP deputy Ana Marín for "overtaking VOX on the right", underlining that the PP voted - in 2018 -- the Democratic Memory Law.

The IU deputy, Álvaro Sanz, has rejected "the justifications for the coup d'état" of 1936 and has asserted that "the only person responsible for what happened is General Franco and all the coup plotters", adding that after the civil war Franco carried out a "policy of self-reparation for the victims for God and for Spain."