The Government will take its offensive towards the democratic reminiscence legal guidelines of the PP and Vox to the UN and the EU | EUROtoday

The Government of Pedro Sánchez will convey the United Nations, the European Parliament and the Council of Europe his offensive towards autonomous governments of PP and Vox for the repeal of the democratic reminiscence regulation in Arachn and the so-called legal guidelines of harmony introduced within the Valencian Community y Castile and Len.

Government sources have introduced this Thursday that, along with their intention to take these legal guidelines to the Constitutional Court, they’ll flip to the UN particular rapporteur on Truth, Justice and Reparation and the rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions to guage the conformity of those norms with ” “one of the best worldwide practices and the worldwide commitments acquired by Spain in issues of human rights”.

In addition, the Executive will promote the debate on these laws in the plenary session of the European Parliament through the socialist parliamentary group and will contact the Council of Europe (an intergovernmental organization of which 46 European states are part) to warn of the “potential violation of a number of provisions of the human rights conference.”

Among other aspects, the Government will promote an urgent debate in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to analyze the memory law repealed in Aragón and the “harmony” laws presented in the Valencian Community and Castilla y León.

Reparation for all victims

He will also contact the Secretary General of the Council of Europe and the Commissioner for Human Rights to inform them of the “seriousness of the state of affairs” and request a report on the situation of democratic memory in Spain.

On February 15, Aragón became the first community to repeal an autonomous law of democratic memory with the support of the three groups present in the Government: PP, Vox and PAR.

Next, PP and Vox presented on March 21 in the Valencian Community, where they govern in coalition, a proposed law of “harmony” that will replace the current autonomous law of memory and that, according to Vox, will eliminate the “civilist battle phrases.” “and can preserve reparation for all victims.

Along the identical traces, the PP and Vox, which govern collectively in Castilla y León, introduced there on March 26 a proposal for a “concord” regulation to exchange the present autonomous decree of historic reminiscence.

This new norm doesn’t embody an specific condemnation of what occurred between the Civil battle and the Constitution of 1978, whereas eliminating the phrase “dictatorship” to refer solely as Francoism to the interval between 1939 and the arrival of democracy.