This Wednesday, Les Corts Valencianes experienced a historic debate. And the fact is that the beginning of the processing of the so-called Concord Law promoted by PP and Vox – which has raised so much controversy by equating the victims of Francoism and the dictatorship with those of the Republic or with those of the terrorist group ETA – has generated a crossroads of accusations supported by historical references and very different readings of what happened in Spain before and after the civil war.
In a tense and hostile debate with much applause on each side for its speakers, PP and Vox have defended the foundations of their law to “recognize all victims” while the opposition (PSPV and Compromís) have not hesitated to qualify the text as “garbage” that “whitewashes a genocidal regime.” What is clear is that what the Concord Law has not exactly brought to the Valencian Parliament has been any concord.
The Vox spokesperson and promoter of the text, José María Llanos, in a speech without deviating from the script, was proud that finally “someone has the courage to treat all Valencians equally without double standards and without lies.” and has pointed out that the fact that there was “a formally democratic system” like the Republic does not give its defenders a clear pass to forget the “absurdities” that have been committed since 1931.
The PP spokesperson, Miguel Barrachina, has delved into the recognition of all the victims and has regretted that some want to hide those of the present: “This parliament rebels against Bildu being the one to say who are victims,” ??he indicated, reiterating that the law It also recognizes those murdered by the terrorist group ETA. In his turn to reply, Barrachina recalled that both of his grandfathers were soldiers in the Republican Army and that they will be at his grave upset that the left is holding “rallies in the cemeteries.”
The turn against the law has been exercised by the PSPV deputy Mercedes Caballero who has not hesitated to point out the “evil” contained in a text that, in her opinion, aims to “return to the two Spains” by equating “a democratic regime with a genocidal regime.” The socialist spokesperson for Historical Memory in Les Corts has lamented that the popular people “have never renounced being the heirs of Francoism” but “they had never had the shamelessness to express it in a legislative text.”
The Compromís parliamentarian Isaura Navarro has also been very harsh, describing the text as “filth” that is reminiscent of the “Francoist speeches” of the NODO and “belittles the victims and democracy.” Navarro has made a passionate defense of the Botànic’s historical memory laws and the rights achieved with them, to which the PP ombudsman has responded with a list of the exhumations planned in the Paterna cemetery by the government chaired by Carlos Mazon. The leader of Compromís closed the debate (on Thursday the decision to be taken into consideration will be voted on) with a strong “health and Republic.”
