The Basque Parliament today approved the law of historical and democratic memory, after more than two years of discussion

The Historical and democratic memory law of Euskadi, which strengthens policies and actions to restore the memory of the victims of the military coup, the civil war and Franco’s dictatorship, will be approved today at a session starting at 9:30 am.

More than two years after the approval of this bill by the Basque governmentvictims will receive a regional regulation that protects them after a long parliamentary debate that has managed to unite in a common text, after the introduction of several amendments, to PNV, PSE-EE, EH Bildu and Elkarrekin Podemos-IU, who constitute 68 of the 75 parliamentarians. PP, Vox and Cs will not support the new rule.

The aim of the standard is to regulate public policy on historical memory in order to ‘promote moral reparation and the recovery of the personal and family, social or collective memory of those who have suffered persecution or violence for political, trade union, ideological or religious purposes. believe”.

It consolidates and normatively expands the volume of actions in this area developed so far and gives it a leading role Gogorathe Basque Memory Institute, which strengthened its work in reporting human rights violations in Euskadi between 1936 and 1978, prepared a count of fatalities or traced and identified people who went missing during the civil war.

The creation of a DNA bank with excavations from Euskadi and a documentation center, and the preparation of a catalog of places, routes and spaces of historical memory are other novelties of the document.

The new rule punishes in the same way Fines the destruction of graves of Civil War victims, and the destruction and concealment of documents relevant to the investigation and knowledge of the truth, which it describes as very serious violations.