• At a meeting held in Madrid, the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory and the Secretary General of the OECD are making progress in the preparations for this international meeting that Spain will host and chair.

• The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory reiterates “the commitment of the Government of Spain to the principles of truth, justice, reparation and guarantee of non-repetition”

· The city will house three plaques of Place of Democratic Memory in the Port of Alicante, in the Municipal Cemetery and in the Central Market

· Ángel Víctor Torres has presided over the act of homage, together with the president of the Principality, Adrián Barbón, and has pointed out that “a debt” is paid to these men and women, workers and workers who have been the “great forgotten ones” of history

Tribute to the victims and symbol of collective memory

• Exhibitions, performing arts, music, literature, round tables, digital initiatives, podcasts or educational workshops, among other actions, throughout the Spanish territory, make up the Commissioner’s decentralized program for the coming weeks.
• The communication campaign ‘Democracy is your power’, of the celebration of ‘Spain in Freedom. 50 years’, calls for reflection on the rights, freedoms and plurality achieved in the last five decades
• Dialogue and collaboration with youth, through participatory and training activities, is one of the main lines of work

• Thus, the Democratic Memory Law is developed to eliminate shields, badges or plates in public roads or buildings, as well as references in toponyms or streets, which exalt the military uprising and the dictatorship
• The Council of Ministers also establishes the Technical Commission, which will be the advisory and monitoring body for the fulfillment of the measure

• The minister stressed that, in the three years of the Law’s validity, almost half of the bodies likely to be exhumed have already been recovered

• Among the latest actions is the resignification of the Cuelgamuros Valley, where 36 boxes with the remains of 458 people have been located

• Torres stressed that with the Democratic Memory Act it has been possible to paralyze the initiatives in different CCAA that sought to repeal the autonomous memory laws