The socialist group in the Cabildo of Tenerife will defend this Friday in the plenary session of the Insular Corporation a motion that urges the withdrawal of honors and distinctions to Frank as the adopted son of the island. The proposal of the socialist team seeks to comply with the Historical Memory Law that forces eliminate any kind of exaltation of the dictatorship.
Javier Rodríguez Medina, socialist councilor in charge of the defense of this motion that is presented jointly with the group Sí Podemos Canarias, assures that “the Island Council of Tenerife must adopt the appropriate agreements to comply with the Historical Memory Law as well as with what was stated by the Constitutional Commission of the Congress of Deputies ”. For this reason, says Rodríguez Medina, it is proposed to the plenary session of the Cabildo de Tenerife “to adopt as the only agreement to withdraw the honors and distinctions
granted to General Francisco Franco Bahamonde on August 20, 1936 for which he is named adoptive son of the island of Tenerife”.
In this sense, Rodríguez Medina recalls that the regulations establish that “no one can feel legitimized, as happened in the past, to use violence in order to impose their political convictions and establish totalitarian regimes contrary to freedom and dignity, which deserves the condemnation and rejection of our democratic society ”.
This proposal is sustained, continues the Socialist counselor, in that the regulations establish that “public administrations, in the exercise of their powers, must take the appropriate and necessary measures for the removal of shields, badges, plates and other objects or commemorative mentions of exaltation, personal or collective, of the military uprising, of the Civil war and the repression of the dictatorship.
Law 52/2007, of December 26, which recognizes and extends rights and establishes measures in favor of those who suffered persecution or violence during the Civil War and the dictatorship, popularly known as the Historical Memory Law, was approved by the Government of the PSOE, the political formation that makes that its directive is fulfilled.
