He Government of Cantabria (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, which promoted this norm almost two years ago from the regional Executive, have voted against this initiative by Vox, which urges the Executive to present as soon as possible a bill to repeal this norm.
Their debate has provoked the anger of several attendees at the plenary session belonging to memorial associations, to whom the president of Parliament, María José González Revuelta (PP)has attracted attention several times for applauding or making comments during the interventions, even going so far as to ask them to leave the Chamber.
“It is a shame”they cried as they left the chamber after the vote took place.
Vox spokesperson Leticia Díaz has criticized that the current law “completely omits a portion of the victims.” “Pain has no sides”has underlined.
Íñigo Fernández (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 could be talked about and what couldn’t“, “subsidize only the memorial associations on one side” and “indoctrinate in the classrooms.”
And it has opted, yes, 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 his parliamentarian Mario Iglesias, this issue “would not be debated” in other European countries because memory policies “are a duty of the democratic State deployed by governments of different colors.”
“It is an issue of justice, human rights cannot be subjected to political will, they are fulfilled or they are not fulfilled,” he said.
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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”has said.