The Parliamentary Group Sí Podemos Canarias has supported the publication of the Catalog of Francoist Vestiges in Santa Cruz de Tenerife that has been carried out by the Vice-Ministry of Culture, directed by Juan Márquez, and has asked the mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, José Manuel Bermúdez ( Canarian Coalition), which “respects this Parliament and the laws that are approved in it, such as the Law of Historical Memory”.
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This has been stated by the parliamentary spokesman for Sí Podemos Canarias and rapporteur for the Canarian Historical Memory Law, Manuel Marrero, for whom “if Mayor Bermúdez wants to defend Santa Cruz de Tenerife, he should execute the Historical Memory Law and not continue to maintain those almost 80 vestiges of Francoism, which is what really stigmatizes the city that he claims to defend”.
“Santa Cruz de Tenerife has to stop being a democratic anomaly in the Canarian, state and European Union spheres; a city cannot continue exalting those who have violated Human Rights”, she assured.
For the parliamentary group, “it is a shame” that the capital of Tenerife and co-capital of the Canary Islands “maintains 15 years after the Law of Historical Memory and 42 years after the Constitution was approved, so many vestiges of the dictatorship and the Francoist coup d’etat” .
Faced with the questioning that the Deputy Minister of Culture has endured by Mayor Bermúdez, questioning the validity of the Catalog of the remains found in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the spokesperson for Sí Podemos Canarias recalls that it is “a legal mandate that falls to in the area of Cultural Heritage” of the Government of the Canary Islands.
“The exaltation statue of Franco or the propeller of the ‘Canarias’ cruise ship, which acted in the Malaga massacre known as ‘La desbandá’, are neither assets of cultural interest nor are they subject to any form of artistic protection and, therefore, They must be considered as the Law itself says: public administrations in the exercise of their powers, will take the appropriate measures for the withdrawal of shields, insignia, plates and other objects or commemorative mentions of personal or collective exaltation of the military uprising, of the War Civil and the repression of the dictatorship”, insists Marrero.
For this reason, from Sí Podemos Canarias it is insisted that the Government of the Pact of the Flowers “is abiding by the state and Canarian laws of Historical Memory”, for which it corresponds to the group of Canarian institutions “to comply with them”.
“There is no room for misleading messages or erroneous legislative interpretations used as excuses for not acting. Academic and legal rigor, yes; demagoguery, none”, concludes Marrero.
