The excuse most used by certain Spanish political parties and by a large part of those who support them for not complying with the constitutional, moral and even evangelical mandate (you will honor the dead) and rescue more than 100,000 Spaniards from ditches and mass graves that remain in them from the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship is that we must stop looking back, since time has already passed and the only thing that should matter to us is the future. It is the same argument used by the mayor of Matiora in the film by the Russian Elem Klimov Farewell to Matiora when, in order to convince the inhabitants of his village that they should accept the construction of the dam and leave, he told them: “Where do we have the eyes, in the front part of the head or in the back?… In the front, right?… And why?… Well, very simple: because we have to look forward, not backwards” . More or less what the obedient (to the Soviet authorities) mayor of Matiora said to his neighbors and more or less what the political parties of the right have been telling us Spaniards ever since we began to live in democracy in order not to address the problem of Disappeared from the Civil War and the Dictatorship, which continue in the same place where they were almost half a century after it ended. which does not prevent them demand both recognition and justice for those killed by the ETA terrorism, which, although for less time, are also part of the past of this country, luckily. For certain parties of the Spanish right, what is valid for some dead people (looking back and asking for justice) is not valid for others, it seems.
The opportunism of the parliamentary spokesperson for the Popular Party in Congress and opponent of the Prime Minister in the debate on the state of the nation held this week as the new leader of his party was not a deputy demanding from the tribune a minute of silence in memory of the popular councilor of Ermua Miguel Ángel Blanco, 25 years since the assassination, a minute of silence was observed by each and every one of the parliamentarians, including the two from Bildu, It is not only manifested from the perspective that I was saying before (the day is yet to come when the main party of the Spanish right asks for a minute of silence for those killed in the Civil War and in the dictatorship who still remain in the ditches: more than 100,000, I repeat), not even from their informality (as the President of Parliament would later remind the petitioner of the minute of silence, those things are have to do following the regulations of the Congress, which indicates that it is the presidency of the latter who is responsible for making these requests, either on its own initiative, or at the request of the spokespersons) but, above all and mainly, in the intention, that was none other than torpedo the law of Democratic Memory that the Government presented to a vote while diverting attention from its true background to ETA, a bleeding chapter in the memory of the last century of this country, but only a chapter for our misfortune. The Bild’s presencethe renewed and institutionalist version of the left-wing Basque independence movement, among the parties that would support the new law, the Popular Party has seemed this time a better excuse to oppose the fulfillment of the Gospel and the UN mandate than that of the mayor of Matiora de that we have to look forward and not back, because for a reason we have our eyes on our faces.