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Newspapers and media outlets are reporting that the Spanish government ( @SE_MemoDemo) will bring its proposed new memory law to the Spanish parliament next week for approval.
@_infoLibre have published these proposals. Translated in thread below
https://www.infolibre.es/noticias/politica/2020/09/09/todos_los_detalles_nueva_ley_memoria_estado_abrira_fosas_oficio_auditara_expolio_franquista_110760_1012.html?utm_source=whatsapp.com&utm_medium=smmshare&utm_campaign=noticias
@_infoLibre have published these proposals. Translated in thread below
https://www.infolibre.es/noticias/politica/2020/09/09/todos_los_detalles_nueva_ley_memoria_estado_abrira_fosas_oficio_auditara_expolio_franquista_110760_1012.html?utm_source=whatsapp.com&utm_medium=smmshare&utm_campaign=noticias
1) An audit of economic repression and seized goods during the Civil War and Francoist dictatorship.
2) Recognition and moral reparation for enforced / enslaved labour.
3) Declaring that Francoist courts and the sentences that they distributed as illegitimate and null. Families can request a certificate of personal recognition and reparation.
4) The state will take on a greater role in the exhumation of mass graves. It will assist autonomous communities and town halls or directly take over the exhumation. A government official will attend each exhumation. Government will update its map of mass graves.
5) A new public prosecutor for violations of human rights.
6) The government will create a national DNA database for victims of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist dictatorship. This will be used to identify corpses in mass graves.
7) A census of victims: anyone who suffered violence, coercion, repression or died in combat.
8) Withdrawal of noble titles (peerages) granted between 1948 and 1978.
9) Withdrawal of symbolic honours which exalt the Spanish Civil War or dictatorship.
10) Revoking police medals, such as the one given to Billy El Niño.
9) Withdrawal of symbolic honours which exalt the Spanish Civil War or dictatorship.
10) Revoking police medals, such as the one given to Billy El Niño.
11) Dissolution of any organisation that exalts Francoism, probably aimed at the Francisco Franco Foundation.
12) Withholding of public funds for any organisation or individual in violation of the new law.
12) Withholding of public funds for any organisation or individual in violation of the new law.
13) The Valley of the Fallen:
a) Context will be added to explain its origin and purpose.
b) It can only house victims of the Spanish Civil War; could affect Primo de Rivera
c) The government will take steps to exhume bodies interred in the Valley against their families' wishes.
a) Context will be added to explain its origin and purpose.
b) It can only house victims of the Spanish Civil War; could affect Primo de Rivera
c) The government will take steps to exhume bodies interred in the Valley against their families' wishes.
14) Updating the secondary school curriculum to include 'memory'.
15) Removal of anti-democratic or Francoist symbols. This could affect the position of Queipo de Llano's tomb in the Macarena Basilica.
16) Recognition of the repression of women. This makes reference to women who had their rights and freedoms violated or who suffered second-hand repression through the disappearance of partners and fathers.
17) Facilitating access to archives. Creation of a Historical Memory archive.
18) Fines of up to 150,000 euros for destroying mass graves or allowing exaltation of Francoism.
19) Updated definition of 'victims'. Any individual who suffered, individually or collective, physical, moral or psychological damage, or had their fundamental and human rights violated between the Spanish Civil War (1936) and the approval of the Constitution (1978).
20) 31st of October will become the Day of Remembrance and Homage to Victims. 8th of May, Victory in Europe Day, will be Day of Remembrance and Homage to Victims of Exile.
It also seems that the government is increasingly using the term 'democratic memory' rather than 'historical memory'.
Presently these are just (leaked) proposals & there will be reforms suggested by the opposition, as well as the government's partners, followed by a debate.
Here's a thread from early 2019 on Spanish political parties' position on historical memory. https://twitter.com/SpainMemoryWars/status/1110147454677192704
Here's a thread from early 2019 on Spanish political parties' position on historical memory. https://twitter.com/SpainMemoryWars/status/1110147454677192704
