The PP assures that it will comply with Vox and repeal the Democratic Memory Law.

PalmThe PP and Vox are at odds again. But this time, this won't save the Democratic Memory Law. The spokesperson for the Popular Party parliamentary group, Sebastià Sagreras, assured that the process of repealing it continues. Next Tuesday, a vote on its consideration will be held in the plenary session, and the PP will facilitate it. This will comply with the agreement signed with the far right in exchange for the 2025 budget.

"We will vote in favor with the same arguments we have always given," said Sagreras. The PP maintains that the Memory Law is dispensable and claims that the Graves Law, which allows for the exhumation of the bodies of those repressed during the dictatorship, will remain in force. In fact, the government has used this law as a bargaining chip in various negotiations. Last December 2024, when the stability agreement with Vox collapsed, it agreed to block its repeal in exchange for the left facilitating the vote on a decree law to correct several points of the Simplification Law. Later, it offered to eliminate the law to Vox in exchange for its support for the budgets last July. Vox spokesperson Manuela Cañadas said she hopes the repeal "comes to fruition this time."

"President Prohens cannot be trusted"

This use of the law as a negotiating tool is what has angered the left, which has accused the PP of breaching its agreements. "The PP should reflect, listen to the memory organizations, and say no to Vox on this matter," said PSIB spokesperson Iago Negueruela: "We'll see how this vote ends." For his part, United Left MP José María García called for the law to be "maintained and for present and future generations to be aware of what happened" during the dictatorship. Similarly, the leader of MÁS for Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, called for us not to forget either "democratic memory" or "the dangers that threaten democracy": "President Marga Prohens cannot be trusted."