The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, assured this Friday that the Francisco Franco Foundation is in its "last days", although he has qualified the Executive's intentions by explaining that they do not intend to make it illegal but rather to "extinguish" it.
"We do not illegalize the foundation, what we do is extinguish it. If a foundation, a space, a place, commemorates, honors, boasts of someone who was a repressor, it has no meaning within democracy," he explained in an interview in Cadena Ser, where he has also assured that we are facing the "last days" of the Francisco Franco Foundation.
Last February, Torres himself announced that the Government would do "whatever it has to do" to outlaw this foundation, although he avoided specifying dates of when it will occur. When asked about the changes that the foundation is carrying out to try to adapt to the Democratic Memory law, Torres believes that "they will not" be able to avoid the norm.
During this interview, Torres has set a date for the next steps that the Government will take in terms of Democratic Memory, specifically, it will be next Tuesday the 23rd when his ministry will bring to the Council of Ministers the composition of three commissions and other measures related to the Valley. of Cuelgamuros, more popularly known as Valley of the Fallen.
He has stressed that the Executive "has to meet certain deadlines" and its intention is to maintain the spirit of "true harmony." "It is not about concord that some communities like Aragón, which talk about a law of concord and it turns out that they withdraw the map of graves," he has disfigured.
As he explained, among the commissions that will be brought to the next Council are included, for example, one for the restoration of the gypsy people and one for economic restoration for the relatives of the victims of the Republican side, because "the other side was rewarded."
"Those who came to the Cuelgamuros Valley, if they were from the National Side, went in a box with their name and came from a cemetery and told the family. If they were from the Republican Side, 10 or 12 people came to the same box. mixed together, they were taken from a mass grave and they never told their families," he lamented.
