PSN, EH Bildu, Geroa Bai and Contigo Navarra voted against the motion, almost unanimously arguing that Franco’s victims had received swift and public tribute from the regime.
He Parliament of Navarre has refused to involve the victims Franco side in the database of victims of the civil war and Francoism ‘Oroibidea’ —the web portal that collects the oral memories recorded and curated by the Navarro Memory Institute, allowing the motion supported by UPN, PP and Vox. The other factions voted against.
In defense of the motion, the UPN spokesperson said in the Provincial Chamber: Iñaki Iriarte, explained that ‘Oroibidea’ “systematically excludes all Navarrese people who were subject to repression in the territory controlled by the Republic.” After stating that UPN shares the existence of this database of retaliation victims, it has asked for a “more inclusive memory policy.” “Francoism was a dictatorship,” Iriarte has acknowledged, adding that thousands of people were forced to wage war regardless of whether they agreed with the ideology or not.
Both PPN and Vox have supported the initiative. The far-right group’s spokesperson has asked Maite Nosti for ‘respect’ for those who take revenge on both sides, and believes that eighty years later we should ‘forget that hatred and revenge’.
The rest, against
The other factions voted against the motion. In turn, the parliamentarian of the PSN Inmaculada Jurío has disfigured the intention of the motion as “an attack on dignity” and has advocated “giving the necessary and differentiated space to each victim at this time.”
By EH BilduArantxa Izurdiaga has pointed out that during the Spanish Civil War “there were winners and losers”, and the former “paid tribute to their victims”, made monuments to them and some were even beatified by the Catholic Church. “We believe that public policy should be made to end this asymmetry. The treatment has been very different and that is why we must continue with government policy to recognize victims who have remained forgotten.”
For his part, the spokesperson said Geroa BaiMikel Asiain has warned that the UPN movement “originally has a trap, because it presents Oroibidea as something it is not,” as “it is not the digital archive of the civil war and the Franco regime in Navarre, but the digital archive of rebel victims”.
Also Miguel Garrido from With you Navarra has been forceful in justifying governments making laws ‘for victims who have not been compensated. Why don’t we make laws for victims of the street violence we suffer every day? Because no one justifies it and there is no need for a law because we all understand that they are victims.”
Source: EITB
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