The Government has today constituted the Interministerial Commission for the Resignification of the Cuelgamuros Valley to promote and coordinate the measures for its transformation into an interpretation center.

The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, explained that the Commission’s main objective is “to turn that environment into a space that fosters constitutional and democratic values and promotes knowledge and reflection on our past.”

This re-significance procedure comprises a large number of measures involving the participation of several ministerial departments. Therefore, and in order to ensure the appropriate impetus and coordination of the measures to be adopted, the Council of Ministers of June 11 created the inter-ministerial body that is being constituted today and in which all the ministerial departments affected participate in the resignificance of the monument.

The Commission, which will meet once a month, is chaired by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, and is composed of the Ministers of Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños; the First Vice-President and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero; the Second Vice-President and Minister of Labour and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz; the Third Vice-President and Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera; the Minister of Morant Transport and the Ernest Minister of Urban Culture, Economy. The secretariat of the Commission is headed by the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez.