The conflict over the anti-historical memory laws, which the PP and Vox call “concord”, will definitively reach the Constitutional Court, which will have to resolve it. The Government, after the autonomous Executive of Aragon, in the hands of PP and Vox, has decided not to even respond to their requests to meet and try to find an agreed solution, has decided to file a constitutional appeal against the only thing that it has approved in Aragón moment, this is the repeal of the Memory Law that had been approved by the previous regional parliament, with the PSOE government. Aragón alleges that it has not yet approved its Law of Concord, but the central Executive, and also the UN rapporteurs, have studied the text of the repeal in detail and have seen that it contains various violations of international law, in addition to invading the powers of the State, since it collides with the democratic memory law that is in force.
In the repeal, for example, the PP and Vox have determined, as explained by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, that those that remember the places where there were concentration camps and other places of memory be removed. important, similar to those of almost all surrounding countries. In addition, and especially serious for the Government, the repeal also eliminates the instruction so that children in Aragon schools are aware of Franco’s repression, and the map of mass graves that had been prepared and the information to the associations that search for missing persons.
Torres explained, after the Council of Ministers, that he made the decision after the Government had tried to seek an agreement with Aragón to avoid the appeal, a usual process for which there are three months, and the interest in organizing was officially communicated. a meeting But the regional Executive of the PP and Vox, in a totally unusual way, has not even wanted to make that appointment. Torres has also claimed that this resource not only has the endorsement of the UN rapporteurs, who made a very harsh report on the repeal law in Aragon and on the projects in Castilla y León and the Valencian Community, also governed by the PP and Vox, but also the legal support of the Council of State, which has supported the decision to appeal in a report.
The unconstitutionality appeal is filed “for violation of jurisdiction and the principle of collaboration, and also for violation of articles 10 and 15 of the Spanish Constitution, considering that the developments related to the legal status of victims contained in international standards provide guidelines of interpretation relevant to the prosecution of the constitutionality of Law 1/2024,” says the Government. “According to the favorable opinion of the Council of State, “the Law as a whole is challenged for violation of the principle-duty of collaboration with the State, in order to the full effectiveness of State Law 20/2022 and the guarantee of its effectiveness”. “The Government also considers that failure to comply with the State Democratic Memory Law results in a failure to comply with the dignity of the victims and their moral integrity guaranteed by the Constitution,” concludes the Executive.
Castilla y León and Valencian Community
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Torres has pointed out that they will follow the same path with Castilla y León and the Valencian Community, although they have to wait for their parliaments to approve the regulations to be able to appeal them. In the case of Castilla y León, the situation is especially significant from a political point of view, since the PP, which is still led by the same person, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, is going to amend itself because with the new Law of Concordia it is to repeal another that the PP itself approved when it governed with Ciudadanos, and not with Vox, which proves the change as a concession to its new partner. Meanwhile, the PP defends its laws of harmony and the president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, came to harshly charge against the UN rapporteurs, whom he accused of lying, and wrote to the secretary general, Antonio Guterres, to show his discomfort. .
Torres has called on the PP to rectify its intention to carry out these regulations, which in the Government’s opinion represent a harsh blow and a lack of respect for the victims of Franco’s regime. “If the PP say that they condemn the Franco dictatorship, why do they withdraw that condemnation from their laws? Why do they make the victims of the democratic side invisible? We are not going to allow anyone to rewrite history. And for this we resort to the Constitution that some defend so much. We will do whatever is necessary to protect the victims,” Torres insisted.
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