PRC and PSOE defend that it is for “all victims” and criticize that the ‘popular’ support the “most unconstitutional right”
The Popular Group has carried out this Monday with its votes a Vox initiative through which the Cantabrian Parliament urges the regional Executive (PP) to present “as soon as possible” a bill to repeal the Law of Historical and Democratic Memory of Cantabria approved last term by the PRC and PSOE.
During the debate on the initiative, regionalists and socialists have defended that this norm seeks “justice” and provides legal coverage “to all those who suffered” in the period from the Civil War to the entry into force of the 1978 Constitution, since that “does not speak of sides, of winners or losers.”
On the contrary, PP and Vox have expressed the opinion that it is a “partial and sectarian” law that distinguishes between “first-class and second-class victims.” Of course, they believe that a new rule should be developed that preserves from the current one the right of Cantabrians to recover the remains of their relatives, “regardless of which side they are from.”
The deputies of PP and Vox have a majority compared to those of PRC and PSOE – 19 compared to 16 -, which is why the Chamber’s request to the Government to prepare its bill has gone ahead. An approval that some citizens who were in the audience in the plenary session have denounced by shouting in the Chamber.
“It’s embarrassing!” they have stated, which has led the president of Parliament, María José González Revuelta, to ask them to “respect everyone’s opinions” and to leave the Chamber, something that she had already requested moments before. before when they applauded at the end of the interventions of the PSOE and PRC spokespersons, since this gesture is prohibited in Parliament.
The Vox deputy Leticia Díaz has been the one who has defended the non-law proposal that has gone ahead thanks to the support of the ‘popular’. In her intervention, she pointed out that the current law is “a law of revenge” that “completely omits” the victims of the Popular Front.
“Pain has no sides,” he stated, defending that “the just demand of the victims must be met regardless of their creed.” Furthermore, he has opined that the Cantabria Memory Law “would never have been approved if it had depended on those who suffered the war.”
Along the same lines, the ‘popular’ Iñigo Fernández has maintained that the norm was “stillborn” because it was “sectarian” and was approved “without dialogue”, since he assures that his group presented amendments that the PRC and PSOE “did not even read.”
In his opinion, “he distinguishes between victims of one side and the other”, seeks to “confront the Cantabrians” and “sprinkles public money only to the memorialist associations on one side.”
“NEXT TO THE MOST ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT”
Faced with this, the PRC has accused the PP of placing itself on the side “of the most anti-constitutional right”, “with Vox and the victims on one side”, instead of “with the victims on both sides”, as in their opinion. could have done by opting to modify the law instead of repealing it.
And the regionalist Pedro Hernando has assured that this law already provides legal coverage “to all those who suffered at that time and were not recognized”, and understands that “to say that there is a period that is left out is to be untrue.” “The law does not speak of sides, of winners or losers. It speaks of people, of victims.”
Finally, the socialist Mario Iglesias has lamented that it would be “unthinkable” for such an initiative to be debated in countries such as Italy, Germany or Portugal, and has denounced that it comes from a party whose ranks include “open defenders of the Franco regime”, and that “denies recognition to the victims saying that it means reopening wounds.”
Furthermore, he stressed that the first remains that were exhumed in Cantabria with this law were those of a municipal mayor of Liébana murdered by the maquis. “Stop saying that it is only for victims of one side. It is a matter of justice,” he declared, adding that “7,000 Cantabrian families do not know where they have buried their dead” and that Spain is the second country with the most mass graves alone. behind Cambodia.
PARLIAMENT REJECTS AMNESTY
On the other hand, the Plenary has approved, with votes against the PSOE, a non-law proposal from the PP to reject the amnesty and the negotiations that the acting President of the Government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, is carrying out with the Catalan independence parties in this sense.
For the popular ones, there is no social consensus to open a process that “generates rejection” among Spaniards, which is “a fraud, a deception and breaks the consensus of the Constitution.” “This is what the 6% of independentists are pursuing and Pedro Sánchez sacrifices everything,” denounced deputy Íñigo Fernández, for whom an amnesty and a self-determination referendum “cannot be achieved by one vote: that is trampling on democracy.”
Both socialists and regionalists have agreed that the initiative is a “smokescreen in the face of Feijóo’s failed investiture” – in the words of PSOE deputy Pablo Zuloaga – and “the axis of a failed investiture”, according to the PSOE spokesperson. PRC, Pedro Hernando, as well as the fact that there is no initiative on amnesty.
In this sense, Zuloaga has described the proposal as a “pantomime” and has recalled those that the popular presidents José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy did approve.
The regionalists, for their part, have voted in favor because they defend the Constitution, although they have said they are as much against the independentistas of Junts as they are against the centralism of Vox. Party, the latter, that has supported the popular proposal.
LEGALITY IN BOARDS OF DIRECTORS
In another order, the Plenary has rejected a non-law proposal from the PRC for “strict compliance with legality” in the Administration and public sector, specifically, so that the PP “rectify” their “non-compliance” with the Law of Transparency and the Equality Law, an issue that the popular have denied.
Specifically, the regionalist deputy Javier López Marcano has denounced that the Basic Statute of Public Employees has been breached in the selection procedures of 12 senior positions in terms of merits and capacity since “the only requirement” that has been requested is to have held some representative position or directed work groups, according to Marcano, for whom any councilor without training for the position “can be general director.”
He has also denounced that the Equality Law has not been complied with on boards of directors, as in the case of Cantur, where of the ten directors, eight are men and two are women. “In equality, not a step back,” he claimed.
The popular deputy, Miguel Ángel Vargas, has accused the regionalists of going to Parliament to “generate doubts” and “uncertainties” when “nothing they say has happened” because the PP “submits to the rule of law out of conviction.” “.
In relation to the Public Employee Statute, he has replied that the PRC put forward when he was in Government the “worthiness” of being from this party rather than, for example, director of the New York Zoo. And regarding parity on Boards of Directors, he has pointed out that the president of Cantabria, the president of Parliament and the mayor of Santander are women. Some responses without arguments against these complaints, in Marcano’s opinion.
