The vice-president of Aragon, Mar Vaquero, defended this Wednesday the repeal of the controversial Democratic Memory law, initiated a year ago and suspended by the Constitutional Court. after admitting the Pedro Sánchez government’s call for treatment.
The head of the Presidency, Economy and Justice recalled that this measure, agreed with Vox, This was part of the Popular Party’s electoral program. “The repeal was carried out because it was a law that divided and fractured and did not take into account the feelings of all Aragonese. An agreement was reached democratically,” he said. he pointed out.
The Executive, as he said, continued to develop its harmony plan over the last year. Despite the controversy, Vaquero believes that right now a “normality” reigns that the opposition parties “must accept” continue to move forward “in the recognition, memory and dignity of all the people who have suffered the consequences of this stage”. “We will continue to work and develop the plan. Also with the excavation of the graves so that all these people have a decent burial,” he promised.
In this regard, Vaquero recalled that the PSOE “had the opportunity to seek consensus and reach majority agreement in the Cortes of Aragon”: “But he refused to accept absolutely each of the proposals made by the PP in favor of the recognition of all the victims. The objective was that this would not divide and would not leave some in and others out.”
The Aragonese Government insists that with its concord plan it seeks “normality” and that there are no divisions in Aragonese society. As an example, they give the increase of more than 10% in the budget to advance the exhumations.
Faced with the unknown of what will happen if the Community extends its accounts until 2025, Vaquero wanted to emphasize that the amounts committed “they are guaranteed”and that if there is a new budget, they will consider increasing the positions according to needs and the progress of the work. “This is one of the fundamental commitments of the concord plan. I think it is the least that all those who suffered from this bloody moment in the history of Spain deserve,” he said. .
