The delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, has held a meeting with the first deputy mayor and the councilor for Democratic Memory of the City of Llíria, Paco Gorrea and Consuelo Morató, respectively, and with the president of the Group of Family Victims of the Franco Regime - Common Graves of the Llíria Cemetery, Sergio García, to analyze the subsidies with which the third campaign of location, excavation and exhumation of Franco victims in the locality is financed.
The Government of Spain has earmarked 50,000 euros for this action, which is channeled through the Provincial Council of Valencia, to carry out the first phase of the third campaign of exhumation of at least 40 people buried in one of the graves already located in the municipality.
“The recovery of democratic memory in Spain is for this government an institutional duty protected by international and national legality,” said Bernabé. While the Government of Spain “consolidates and reinforces its commitment, the PP and Vox have initiated in the Valencian Community an alarming process with cuts in all budget lines”. “From 2023 to 2024, the items related to historical memory fell by half and from 2024 to 2025 they have also fallen by half, so they are reduced to the minimum expression,” he said. Barnabas added that “the dignity of a government that does not want to respect the victims and their relatives has also been reduced to the minimum expression”. And in this regard, he recalled that it had to be the Constitutional Court that suspended several articles of the Valencian Law of Harmony that “entailed the restriction of the rights of the victims and the actions aimed at their protection and reparation”.