The former president of the government and of the PP José María Aznar has assured this Tuesday that the Democratic Memory law promoted by the Government of Pedro Sánchez and agreed with EH Bildu is “nonsense made by terrorists and agreed with terrorists.”
In a speech at a summer course organized by the Menéndez Pelayo International University, Aznar warned the Spanish Executive that “either you are loyal to the Constitution or you are loyal to Bildu”, but “there cannot be two loyalties”. “You cannot defend the Constitution and the transition and approve a bill that is nonsense,” Aznar defended.
Shortly before, the former socialist president Felipe González spoke on the issue, who after pointing out that he had not seen the text made his reflection: “When I see it I will tell them, but blowing my nose, it does not sound good to me.”
The opinion of the law yesterday passed the stumbling block of the Constitutional Commission of Congress and now only the final vote remains in plenary next week. After agreeing with EH Bildu, the new rule will recognize the victims of human rights violations until 1983. This would include those who suffered torture or were the object of the so-called ‘dirty war’ against ETA during the five years after the approval of the Constitution and could affect the GAL in the first year of the Government of Felipe González, which he arrived in October 1982.
On the other hand, the rule declares the illegality of the Franco regime and the nullity of the resolutions of its courts, but does not modify the amnesty law of 1977, one of the claims of ERC, which claimed to touch it to investigate and judge the crimes in Spain. of Francoism. However, the Republicans yesterday passed their vote against to abstention.
