The Constitutional Court (TC) has unanimously agreed on Tuesday to process the conflict of powers presented by the Government of the Community of Madrid against the intention of the central executive to declare the Royal Correos House of the Puerta del Sol, headquarters of the regional presidency, as a place of democratic memory, according to legal sources to Europa Press.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso Executive challenged the agreement adopted on October 16 by the General Directorate of Victims Attention and Promotion of Democratic Memory of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, which initiated the procedure of declaration of place of democratic memory of the extinct General Directorate of Francoist Security, which was located in the Royal House of Correos.
The Plenary of the TC has accepted the presentation elaborated by the conservative magistrate, Concepción Espejel, who proposed to admit this challenge, where the regional government alleges that The Central Executive has invaded regional competencies in matters of democratic memory and historical-cultural heritage, because it is a property that the Autonomous Community holds.
In the same challenge, the Community of Madrid also asks that the articles of the Democratic Memory Law attributed to the State to declare a space as a place of democratic memory, without taking into account the autonomous powers, according to adduces, are declared unconstitutional.
The lawyers of the Community of Madrid also claimed the precautionary suspension of the administrative file of declaration while the conflict of competences is processed, for “the damages of impossible or very difficult repair that would be caused to the regional administration”, and in attention “to the general interest of the Madrid citizens if it would be approved before the resolution of the resource.”
Regarding the latter, the TC has reported in a statement that it has decided Hear the Government of Pedro Sánchez to make the allegations you deem appropriate.
When announcing the appeal before the TC, the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Local Administration, Miguel Ángel García Martín, explained that they would not allow the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “to continue to be eased, colonizing each and every one of the institutions and trying to impose their biased and partisan vision of reality.”
The Royal Correos House
In the letter of allegations presented by the Community of Madrid within the aforementioned administrative file, the “lack of justification of the measure was affected, given that a tiny period of the past of the Royal Correos house cannot transform the true historical, symbolic significance and the impact that the building holds in the collective memory.”
From the Madrid government they recalled that over more than 250 years, the Royal Post Office has been the central post office, Witness of the events of May 2, 1808 And the General Captaincy, the Military Government and the headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior, even under the Government of the Popular Front.
In addition, he has been the protagonist of the Proclamation of the Second Republicand in the memory of all Madrid and Spaniards it is linked to the celebration of the New Year’s bells and with kilometer 0, they added.
This building, which has on its main facade three plates in tribute and memory of the lifting against the French invasion, the victims of the 11-M attacks and those killed during the Pandemia of the COVID-19, is the headquarters of the Community of Madrid for four decades and its integral remodeling in the late 1990s was inaugurated by its Majesties the kings of Spain.
#Constitutional #admits #appeal #Ayuso #shield #headquarters #Community #Madrid
