The badges and medals imposed on the time won’t should be returned The Guipúzcoa Provincial Council requested an investigation to find out all of the titles granted to individuals associated to the dictatorship
The Provincial Government Council of the Guipúzcoa Provincial Council has agreed to annul and suppress the recognitions, honors and people associated to the exaltation of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Among the measures, the withdrawal of the title of favourite son of the Province granted to Franco, permitted by settlement of July 1, 1939, and the suppression of the appointment of honorary president of the Provincial Council, permitted on July 23, 1945, stand out.
Together with them, different recognitions, honors and distinctions that had been granted through the Franco dictatorship and which are “manifestly incompatible with democratic values and with basic rights and freedoms, and that suppose exaltation of the army rebellion, conflict or the dictatorship”, as highlighted by the regional spokesperson, Eider Mendoza.
An investigation was requested previous to the ‘Democratic Memory Law’
At a press convention, Mendoza defined that, in April 2022, earlier than the approval of the Democratic Memory Law and anticipating it, the Provincial Council commissioned the historian Iñigo Imaz Martínez to hold out analysis work.
The goal of this work was to seek for documentary references on the appointments made between 1937 and 1975 in favor of the dictatorial regime of General Francisco Franco Bahamonde and different honorary titles granted to important people or teams. This report, acquired in September 2022, was shared by the Provincial Council with the General Assemblies.
“After rigorously analyzing the report and finishing up the pertinent consultations, the Provincial Council considers it acceptable to withdraw a number of the recognitions, honors and distinctions granted throughout this era, in accordance with the provisions of Law 20/2022 on Democratic Memory”, the spokesperson specified. .
All the individuals who acquired honors are useless, so it isn’t thought of essential to return the objects that got to them, akin to medals or command sticks. On the opposite hand, in mentioned report reference is made to a sequence of plaques or busts, parts already eliminated or on which motion has beforehand been taken.
“The Provincial Council of Guipúzcoa has firmly dedicated to recovering, disseminating and transferring historic reminiscence all through the Gipuzkoan territory to future generations, all the time guaranteeing the victims’ proper to fact, justice and reparation”, said Mendoza.