The Government of Cantabria, led by the PP, will repeal the law of Historical and Democratic Memory of the autonomous community after Vox has requested it in the regional Parliament. PRC and PSOE, who promoted this norm almost two years ago from the Executive, have voted against the initiative
Their debate has provoked the anger of several attendees at the plenary session belonging to memorialist associations, to whom the president of Parliament, María José González Revuelta, has drawn attention several times for applauding or making comments during the interventions, even asking them to leave the Chamber .
Vox spokesperson Leticia Díaz has criticized that the current law “completely omits a portion of the victims.” “Pain has no sides,” she stressed. Íñigo Fernández, of the PP, has agreed with this idea, who assures that the rule of the previous PRC-PSOE Government is “partial, sectarian, capricious” and was born “without dialogue to confront the Cantabrians.”
Fernández has criticized that, with this law, the regional secretary of the PSOE and former vice president of the Government, Pablo Zuloaga, intended to “tell all of Cantabria what they could talk about and what they could not, subsidize only memorialist associations on one side and indoctrinate in the classrooms”.
And it has opted to preserve two aspects of current legislation: the right of families “regardless of the side” to recover the remains of the victims if possible and the mechanisms to preserve existing documentation.
The PSOE has defended that the Law of Historical and Democratic Memory of Cantabria “is not just for one side” and, according to its parliamentarian Mario Iglesias, this matter “would not be debated in other European countries because memory policies are a duty of the democratic State deployed by governments of different colors”.
The regionalist spokesman, Pedro Hernando, had offered the collaboration of the PRC to modify the law and not repeal it because “it is necessary.” In his opinion, in this session “false and very painful things for many of the victims” were heard. “Today there has been doubt about whether a law is necessary and of course it is necessary,” he said.
