ERC think Francoist trials will be annulled

The annulment of all of the political trials that took place under Franco: this is what ERC wants PSOE to put into the modification of the 2007 historical memory law . The ERC hopes this will go forward in “one or two months” time, said Congress member Joan Tardà yesterday, as he described the amendment that should make it all possible. Tardà recalls the verbal commitment that vice president Carmen Calvo made in September in return for ERC voting in favour of the decree to exhume dictator Franco’s remains from the Valle de los Caídos. “The moment has come to keep [the promise]” said Tardà, who explained that the 2007 law did not include the annulment even though the vice-president at the time, Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, had promised it would.

The amendment claims that, in accordance with national and international law, the judge advocate courts that acted from 1936 to 1978 ought to be declared illegal, along with those courts that repressed masonry and communism, and those with political and public order responsibilities created in 1963 (the predecessors of Spain’s National Court). The ERC also demands the publication of annulled cases, and gives the Spanish government a maximum period of one year to publish them in.