The Acting President of the Central Government, Pedro Sánchez, heads the event today on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance and Tribute to all the Victims of the Military Coup, the Civil War and the Dictatorship, which will be held at the National Music Auditorium, in Madrid
The Acting Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, will also take part in the event, and twenty declarations of reparation and personal recognition will be handed out, including to the management of Workers’ Commissions condemned in the process 1001. The trade unionists were arrested and imprisoned for their opposition to Francoism. Also to the poet Salvador Espriu and the lawyer Cristina Almeida. Another act of reparation will feature Manuela Saborido Muñoz, known as Manolita Chen, performance artist and leader of the LGBTI struggle.
The law of Democratic Memory establishes October 31 as the day of Remembrance and Homage to all the Victims of the Coup d’Etat of 1936, the Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship, because it is the date of 1978 in which the Spanish Constitution and the date of 2007 when the Historical Memory law was approved. As this year coincides with the joint session of the General Courts in which the Princess of Asturias will swear the Constitution, the event has been brought forward to today.
Aside from the cases already mentioned, recognitions will be given to trade unionist bakers Manuel and Miguel Deza García, linked to UGT; to María Teresa León Goyri, intellectual and writer of the generation of 27 who returned to Spain from exile with Rafael Alberti in 1977; to the historian Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz; to Conchita Grangé Beleta, who participated in the French resistance against the Nazis during World War II; to the lawyer and deputy of the Second Republic Pedro Rico López; the philosopher José Luis López Aranguren, who was prosecuted and removed from his chair in 1965 for participating in a protest by teachers and students; to Victòria Pujolar Amat, who after returning from exile joined the communist resistance in the interior of the country and was arrested and tortured in Barcelona; to José Ignacio Domínguez, lieutenant colonel of the Air Force, lawyer and pilot founder of the Democratic Military Union; to José Luis Demaría López, photographer of the Royal House, journalist and businessman, known as Campúa and Campúa father; to Francisco Rocafull Román, who was separated from his twin sister at 6 months in Paterna (Horta Nord); to the lawyer of Comunió Tradicionalista Jesús Requejo San Román; to María del Mar Sánchez Bergua, grand master of the Spanish Female Masonic Grand Lodge; to the Basque writer Gabriel Aresti and to the novelist and outstanding figure of Galician nationalism Alfonso Rodríguez Castelao.
