The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced on his arrival at the Constitutional Commission of the Senate that the Government will transfer to the Public Prosecutor’s Office the actions of the President of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, in case they constitute a hate crime, after breaking in a parliamentary seat a photo in which victims of Franco’s regime appeared, such as Aurora Picornell.
Torres has expressed his “revulsion” at the actions of the Vox representative, considering that they denigrate “people who died for defending freedom and democracy.” He considers that the powers of the president of a Parliament “are to order the debate and not to criticize it with attitudes such as those experienced last Tuesday”.
The minister has referred to the so-called “concord” laws promoted in several autonomous communities. He has valued that the Constitutional Court has suspended the law that repeals the Aragonese law of Democratic Memory and has pointed out that behind the appeal to concord “made by the governments of the right and the far right in the autonomous communities where they govern, is hidden the intention to make a rasa and impose a vision of a country in which our history is only past”.
In response to this, Ángel Víctor Torres has defended the development of the Democratic Memory Law: “It is about reconciling the country with itself, and it is about repairing the compatriots who have never been repaired, who do not rest in peace and whose families cannot honor them,” adding that “it is not about opening wounds, but about doing justice.”