PP and Vox staged their happy marriage in the Parliament of Cantabria on Monday to push through the first step to overturn the Law of Historical and Democratic Memory of Cantabria. On a “sad” day for the region, according to the PRC and PSOE – promoters of the law during the last legislature – PP and Vox have joined forces in the autonomous Chamber to revoke the law as a matter of urgency, as they had already announced.
Regionalists and socialists have voted against the proposed law that has been approved and have accused the right-wing PP and the extreme right of Vox of “historical revisionism”, of “equating victims with repressors” and of “whitewashing the dictatorship”, all of this in the presence of members of the Memory and Democracy Platform of Cantabria, formed after the announcement a year ago of the repeal of the law.
During the parliamentary debate, the positions have been clearly defined and there have been no surprises: PP and Vox have justified, as they have done on repeated occasions, the repeal of the law on the grounds that the text “establishes first-class victims and second-class victims”, ignoring the fact that the victims of the so-called national side received their reparation during the 40 years of the subsequent Franco dictatorship.
And the historical revisionism during the political interventions of PP and Vox has been such that the spokesperson for the far-right party, Leticia Díaz, has even gone so far as to point out that the military uprising that led to the Civil War occurred because “the period of the Second Republic was not a sea of coexistence”, a statement that has provoked the anger of the socialist bench, from which its deputies have reproached her for justifying the coup of 1936.
Furthermore, PP and Vox have reproached PRC and PSOE for imposing the law without consensus during the last legislature, to which the two-party coalition has responded that it was passed with 20 votes in favour out of 35 in the Chamber, compared to the 19 -sum of those of PP and Vox- with which it is now going to be rejected. In this sense, regionalists and socialists have promised to approve it again when they obtain a parliamentary majority that makes it possible: “It represents historic justice.”
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Source: www.eldiario.es
