The Manacor cemetery hosted, this Sunday, the annual commemoration ceremony in memory of the victims of fascist repression. Organized by the Comitè de Son Coletes, it was attended by neighbors, collectives, and relatives of the repressed. The event, which had to be held in the entrance gallery due to the rain, combined verses and music with a firm message against war and the oblivion of memory.

Once the last plenary session of the Parliament had ended, the president of Memoria de Mallorca, Maria Antònia OliverShe re-entered the room. She needed to make one last gesture before leaving, and placed her red handkerchief on the table where the Prime Minister was still sitting. Marga Prohens"Truth, justice, and reparation," he said and left. He did so in protest against the repeal of the Democratic Memory Law, swiftly struck down at the initiative of the far right, supported by the PP. Vox celebrated it as another victory, while the Popular Party simply weathered the storm as best they could. No applause, no congratulations, just perfunctory smiles. "We're the only normal party," the PP spokesperson, Sebastià Sagreras, was heard saying once the plenary session ended. You know how it is: non-small excusatio, manifest accusatioIn other words, perhaps you should get it checked out if you feel the need to justify your behavior.

If the PP leaders are bothered by being labeled the ideological heirs of Francoism, they'd better get used to it. They will be considered as such, and more than deservedly so, as long as they make such government decisions. anti-democratic, vengeful, and painful like the one that prevailed, with the votes of Vox and the PP itself, in the plenary session of the Catalan Parliament on Tuesday, March 10. democratic memory lawThe law, finally repealed in this session after several back-and-forths of low-level politicking, was not a law against anyone, but a reparation law that offered, after more than eighty years of pain and oblivion, recognition to the victims of Francoism and their families.

The People's Party (PP) and Vox definitively repealed the Balearic Islands' Democratic Memory Law on Tuesday after eight years in effect. Relatives of victims of Francoist repression attended a tense plenary session. Vox defended the proposed repeal, and the far-right party's deputy spokesperson, Sergio Rodríguez, presented himself as a victim of the Republicans and accused the Socialists of belonging to a "party of murderers." The PP, for its part, abstained from applauding when the vote concluded, amidst criticism from the left-wing benches. The regional president, Marga Prohens, was pressured to pose for photographs with far-right leaders, including Congressman Jorge Campos, who was also in the audience.

Vox's deputy spokesperson in the Balearic Parliament, Sergio Rodríguez, applauded a "historic event" on Monday: the repeal of the Balearic Islands' Democratic Memory Law, which will take place on Tuesday in Parliament. He considers it historic for two reasons. First, because it will eliminate a "partisan, freedom-crushing" law. Second, because it is "the first law to be passed solely at Vox's initiative": "It's the first law we've passed."

The Platform for Democratic Memory commemorated the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Francoism this Wednesday, October 29th, with an event in which they called on the President of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, not to repeal the Democratic Memory Law. Several people attended the commemoration in Plaça de Cort, where a manifesto was read to remember the more than 3,000 victims in the Balearic Islands and reaffirm the commitment to "truth, dignity, and the defense of democratic memory." The president of Memoria de Mallorca, Maria Antònia Oliver, publicly denounced the fact that the Balearic Government has not commemorated this date for three consecutive years, as established by the still-valid Democratic Memory Law. She therefore called on the Balearic Executive to "reconsider" the foreseeable repeal of the Democratic Memory Law. "They accuse us of being sectarian, but we defend the rights and reparations for all victims, without making any kind of distinction," he emphasized.

The Inca City Council plenary session approved this Thursday the public exhibition of the Municipal Ordinance on Democratic Memory, a regulation that establishes the lines of action to recognize and compensate the victims of Francoist repression, as well as preserve collective memory. This ordinance, promoted and led by MÉS for Inca, is an "important milestone in municipal memory policy," as it makes Inca one of the first municipalities in the Balearic Islands to have a specific and comprehensive regulatory instrument on this matter, explained the eco-sovereignty party.