The Government urges Feijóo to say “whether or not he is with the UN” regarding the “concord laws” of PP and Vox

The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, has urged the Popular Party this Sunday to act now to change the so-called “laws of concord” of three communities where he governs with Vox and that the United Nations rapporteurs warn that they violate human rights. From the former Mauthausen concentration camp (Austria), liberated from the Nazis 79 years ago, Torres has appealed to the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to define himself and say “whether or not he is with the UN” on the matter. of criticism about the norms that replace those of Democratic Memory.

In the same scenario where some 100,000 people were murdered between 1938 and 1945 and where 7,000 Spanish republicans who fled Spain and were detained in France occupied by the Germans were also taken, the minister has insisted that the “concord law” is already approved in Aragón “be modified urgently” and that the other two in process (Valencian Community and Castilla y León) respond “to what is asked of them by the United Nations to respect human rights, to respect international law and not to make invisible to the victims of Francoism.”

The head of Democratic Memory has highlighted that the Government will activate article 33.2 of the Organic Law of the Constitutional Court, a mechanism that calls on both administrations to engage in bilateral dialogue so that this text is modified based on what the UN rapporteurs say. . “If the Government of Aragon does not want to sit down or simply tells us no, the next steps are to go to the Constitutional Court,” the minister warned.

For Torres, Feijóo should “call the popular presidents of these communities to order,” understanding that “they are paying a high price for agreeing with Vox” by agreeing on a legal modification that, first the Government and this week the rapporteurs of The UN is perceived as a denialist of the historical events that occurred in Spain during the Civil War and the subsequent Franco dictatorship. The United Nations report is signed by Fabian Salvioli, special rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition; Aua Baldé, rapporteur of the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances, and Morris Tidball-Binz, special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

The minister, who has been accompanied by his Social Rights counterpart, Pablo Bustinduy, in paying tribute to the victims of the Nazi extreme right, has especially criticized the popular president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, for “going against himself.” . First, Torres said, “he signed a decree when he was president without Vox [en la anterior legislatura] and now he modifies that decree signed by him because his government partners demand it.” The head of Democratic Memory has shown his “zero confidence” in the extreme right represented by Santiago Abascal’s party, who criticized the rapporteurs, claiming that they received financial compensation, something that Torres denied this Sunday in Austria. But, with everything, he has opened a door to understanding with the PP, something that would be “absolutely necessary” to “recover the path of dialogue” between socialists and popular ones. “Do you agree that this should never happen again?” Torres asked Feijóo about the horror experienced in the Austrian concentration camp. And he has stressed: “In our country it is not possible to unite democracy with dictatorship.”

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