The Board of the Congress of Deputies approved this Tuesday that an event in honor of the victims of the Civil War and Francoism will take place in the Lower House on the 31st. The initiative has been approved with the votes of PSOE and Sumar in the highest management body of Parliament and, as elDiario.es has learned, it has had the four representatives of the PP vote against.
The event will take place during the celebration of the day of tribute and remembrance to all the victims of the coup d’état, the war and the dictatorship, which is commemorated every October 31. For this reason, the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, has proposed an act “around democratic memory” that has been endorsed by the left-wing majority of the Table, but which the popular ones have flatly rejected.
It will be precisely Armengol who will open the event, which will begin at 5:00 p.m. in the Constitutional Chamber of Congress. Then the relatives of the victims will speak and later the round table ‘The wounds of the earth’ will take place. Chronicle of a historical repair job’ that will last about 50 minutes.
The speakers at the table will be the archaeologist and director of the University and Memory group, Francisco Carrión, the archaeologist and member of the Aranzadi Society Lourdes Herrasti, the historian Manel Suárez, the representative of the Utrera AMEHIS memorial collective Consolación Barroso and the journalist Natalia Junquera.
Finally, the day will conclude with the theatrical performance of a fragment of the work Federico, there is no forgetting, no dream: flesh life by the company Project 43-2 of María San Miguel.
In favor of eliminating Francoist associations
The PP’s rejection of this initiative once again shows the difficulties of the right in distancing itself from Francoism. However, the popular ones did support on the 8th to begin processing a PSOE bill to dissolve associations that defend the dictatorship.
Specifically, the text that the Lower House took into consideration and that is now being processed modifies the law of associations so that the apology of the Francisco Franco regime constitutes cause for dissolution, “either praising the coup d’état of 1936 or the subsequent dictatorship or by exalting its leaders.” Also “when there is contempt and humiliation of the dignity of the victims of the 1936 coup d’état, the Spanish War or the Franco regime, or direct or indirect incitement to hatred or violence against them due to their condition as such.”
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