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Spain’s executive branch announced on Thursday the immediate withdrawal of the Labor Merit Medal from military dictator Francisco Franco, who died in 1975, and nine members of “his repressive apparatus.”
At a press conference, the Second Vice President of the Government and the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Diaz, apologized for the time it took to remove these decorations from the “book of shame” in front of people with “bloody hands.” And he emphasized: “Never again!”
Democratic Memory Law
These include José Antonio Giron de Velasco (died 1995), who was Minister of Labor (1941–1957); General Juan Yagüe Blanco (died 1952), one of the soldiers who rebelled with Franco in 1936 against the government of the Second Republic; and Cardinal Enrique Pla y Deniel (died 1968), who was Archbishop Primate of Spain.
The Ministry of Labor said in a statement that the decision was made in accordance with Democratic Memory Law, valid from last Friday.
The government had already approved in February last year a new regulation on the meritorious service medal and plaque, allowing, among other changes, to revoke those awarded to collaborators of Francoist repression.
The rule allows them to be withdrawn “when it is proven that the conduct and career of the person or organization awarded is inconsistent with the civil and professional example required to receive the award.”
In addition, when the beneficiary, before or after the concession, “was part of the repressive apparatus of Franco’s dictatorship and committed acts or observed behavior that is clearly inconsistent with democratic values and guiding principles for the protection of human rights. .”
These decorations were created in 1926, during the reign of Alfonso XIII, they disappeared during the Second Republic, they were restored under the dictatorship, and their last regulation is dated 1982, already under democracy.
The new provision is adapted to the current legislation on historical memory, in particular with regard to the rights of victims of the dictatorship, and will allow it to be awarded posthumously.
(As reported by EFE)
Source: RPP
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