Falange wields the new Democratic Memory Law to request that Suárez and Fraga paintings also be removed
MADRID, 25 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
United We Can and Compromís have been in favor this Tuesday of the withdrawal of the images of Juan Carlos I that appear in the Congress of Deputies for not considering it appropriate that in parliamentary headquarters pay tribute to those who have evaded taxes and had money in tax havens .
This is how the spokespersons of both formations have pronounced themselves in press conferences when asked about the request that the Falange Española de las Jons has sent to Congress and the Senate requesting the withdrawal of the images of the King Emeritus, former President Adolfo Suárez and the founder of the PP, Franco’s former minister and ‘father’ of the Constitution, Manuel Fraga, which is in the parliamentary seats.
According to this party, the portraits or busts of Suárez, Fraga and Juan Carlos I must be removed in application of the new Law of Democratic Memory that prohibits the exhibition of commemorative elements “of the military uprising and the dictatorship, of its leaders, participants in the repressive system or of the organizations that supported the dictatorship, and the civil or military units of collaboration between the Franco regime and the Axis powers during the Second World War”.
The spokesman for United We Can in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has focused on the figure of the emeritus and has admitted that it “squeaks” him that the institution hosts effigies of someone who, in addition to having been “appointed by Franco”, has “committed criminal acts”.
Echenique has admitted not knowing the details of the Spanish Falange’s proposal but has advanced that “it does not sound bad” and has promised to study it, since, in his opinion, “it is not misguided”.
“It also stings me to see busts or paintings of Juan Carlos I, not only because he was appointed by Franco, but because of the criminal acts he has committed in recent years,” he said, without going into assessing whether it should also be removed the paintings of Suárez and Fraga.
Along the same lines, the Compromís deputy, Joan Baldoví, has indicated that he who has been shown to “hide money from the treasury, has evaded and has had funds in tax havens” does not deserve to be exposed in Congress.
Of course, Baldoví does not see a problem in maintaining the image of Suárez, the first democratic president after the dictatorship. “He may be perfectly fine,” he has said.
