“The law is going to be fulfilled and we must settle our outstanding debt with those who gave their lives fighting for freedom and democracy in Spain,” warned Pedro Sánchez on his last visit to the Cuelgamuros Valley, last month, to defend the law. Democratic Memory and justify the offensive deployed by the Government in European and international bodies against the “concord laws” promoted by the Popular Party and the far-right Vox in those autonomous communities where they govern in coalition. And this Friday, the Executive and the PSOE have celebrated the forceful response of the United Nations, in which it urges to preserve the historical memory of the “serious violations” of human rights during the Franco dictatorship.
“What a shame,” has warned the Minister of the Presidency and Justice, the socialist Félix Bolaños, in the face of these initiatives of the PP and Vox in Aragón, Castilla y León, and the Valencian Community, now questioned by the United Nations. “The UN tells them that their laws of whitewashing the dictatorship are unworthy of a democracy like Spain,” Bolaños stressed.
“The PP and the extreme right are dragging Spain’s international image through the mud,” the PSOE leadership has criticized in turn. “The United Nations concludes that the so-called concord laws promoted by the PP and the extreme right of VOX in Aragón, Castilla-León and the Valencian Community violate human rights, make invisible the victims of serious violations of them and violate international standards and international treaties signed by Spain,” he highlighted in Ferraz.
In a joint communication prepared by the special rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition, the working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances and the special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, The office of the United Nations high commissioner for human rights demands information from the three autonomous communities governed by the PP and VOX that promote these laws, socialist sources have explained.
And, immediately afterwards, the PSOE “demands the immediate withdrawal of the so-called concord laws promoted by the PP and the extreme right.” “We also demand that the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, take a clear position on this point, and say whether he is with the victims or with these laws of shame,” socialist sources have demanded.
“There is no place for the whitewashing of Francoism in Spain. There is no place for those nostalgic for the dictatorship,” the PSOE has warned. It is not, furthermore, an issue of the past, but one that is very relevant today: “The images of hundreds of followers of the far-right with their arms raised in Italy that we have seen this week should put us on guard against the advance of the far-right in Europe and also in Spain,” Ferraz has warned.
With a call for mobilization, especially in the face of the European elections that will be held in Spain on June 9: “The PP has already made it clear that it will also take a stand on this issue, but we democrats must mobilize so that “Spain once again becomes the containment dam against the ultras,” they have encouraged from the PSOE.
