SEVILLA, 24 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The brotherhood of the Macarena of Seville has reiterated this Monday its willingness to “scrupulously comply” with the legislation regarding the exhumation of Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, “by virtue of its respect for the laws of a democratic state.” This has been expressed by the older brother of the corporation, José Antonio Fernández Cabrero, in a letter addressed to the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez López, in response to a letter from him urging compliance with said Law through exhumation. and subsequent transfer of the remains of Queipo de Llano and General Bohórquez.
In a statement, La Macarena appreciates the letter sent by the Government in relation to the application of the new Democratic Memory Law, “the first official communication that this corporation receives in this regard.”
In this sense, and “as it had been doing”, the brotherhood highlights the fact that “it works in the execution of what the new Law establishes, and which is specified in the aforementioned official letter from the Secretary of State”.
“In its eagerness to scrupulously comply with the law, the Brotherhood had already carried out certain actions for this purpose, which will be completed from now on with the appropriate ones that emerge from this communication from the Secretary of State and that allow it to carry out what is legally established”.
The notification from the Government comes after the approval by the Cortes and the publication in the Official State Gazette of Law 20/2022, of October 19, on Democratic Memory, which has entered into force.
According to the letter, “this new rule aims to close a debt of Spanish democracy with its past and promote a common discourse based on the defense of peace, pluralism and the condemnation of all forms of political totalitarianism that puts the effective enjoyment of the rights and freedoms inherent in human dignity”.
Thus, they state that since 1951, the mortal remains of the leader of the 1936 uprising and responsible for the repression in Andalusia at a later date, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, rest in the Basilica de la Esperanza Macarena. And that the mortal remains of Francisco Bohórquez Vecina, auditor of war and responsible for the execution of sentences with application of war decree, are also found in the temple.
