Three days after repealing the Democratic Memory Law with Vox, the People's Party (PP) maintains that everything will remain the same. Second Vice President and Minister of the Presidency, Antònia Estarellas, stated at a press conference this Friday that the Catalan Government will continue with the memory policies it has implemented thus far and, in any case, the national Memory Law will fill the gaps left by the elimination of the regional law. When asked about these statements, the deputy spokesperson for the Vox parliamentary group, Sergio Rodríguez, reacted with indignation. "They are not fulfilling any of the agreements," he criticized: "The repeal should have had consequences."

The Second Vice President and Minister of the Presidency, Antònia Estarellas, assured this Friday that there will be no restructuring of the department as a result of the repeal of the Democratic Memory Law. "The Government has a well-defined roadmap for memory policies, with investment, and this will continue," she affirmed. She emphasized that the memory service will retain its current staff and will continue carrying out actions such as the commemorative stones and the creation of memorial spaces. "We will commission another 100 that the municipalities have requested," she said. What is no longer permitted by the law's repeal, she stated, will continue to be done in accordance with the State Law on Democratic Memory, which remains in force. Thus, Estarellas demonstrated the Executive's commitment to continue along the same lines despite the law's repeal in the Parliament, a consequence of the 2025 budget agreement with Vox. "On a political level, the most affected party, so to speak, is covered by state law, which is the punitive or prosecuting aspect for certain crimes," he emphasized. Furthermore, he insisted that the Executive "continues" working on the recovery of remains from the mass graves, although memorial organizations have denounced shortcomings in the application of the regulations.

The Spanish government will take the repeal of the Balearic Islands' democratic memory law to the Constitutional Court if President Marga Prohens does not reverse course. This was announced by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, in statements made at the first summit against hate, inaugurated by Spanish President Pedro Sánchez, as reported by EFE.

Jaume Rebassa is named after his godfather. However, his name was taken from him in the successive concentration camps where he was imprisoned after being forced to flee Mallorca in a small boat. They replaced it with a number. On December 24, 1943, he was murdered in Buchenwald, Germany. This Tuesday, Rebassa, accompanied by other relatives of victims of the dictatorship, attended the plenary session of Parliament in which the People's Party (PP) and Vox used their majority to eliminate the Balearic Islands' democratic memory law.

"Law 2/2018 (...) on memory and democratic recognition in the Balearic Islands will be repealed, and reconciliation will always be sought, avoiding historical manipulation and the partisan use of the victims and the tragedy of the civil conflict. Policies will be implemented to facilitate the recovery of deceased persons, without discrimination based on any grounds." "of monuments and historical elements, ensuring their proper maintenance and understanding within their historical context." This is what point 48 of the governance agreement signed by the PP and Vox on June 28th states, an agreement that was enacted in the plenary session of Parliament this Tuesday.

The Democratic Memory Law is one step closer to being scrapped after the People's Party (PP) and Vox voted against the amendments to repeal it in their entirety during Tuesday's plenary session of the Balearic Parliament. The PP's commitment to the left to maintain the law in exchange for their support in the vote to overturn Vox's amendments against the Catalan language and the territory proved futile. The outcry from memorial organizations also fell on deaf ears. The next step will be its complete elimination, and only the Law on Mass Graves will be able to guarantee even minimal rights to the victims and families of those repressed by the Franco regime in the Balearic Islands.

The PSIB and Memoria de Mallorca have taken the repeal of the Balearic Islands' Democratic Memory Law to Brussels with the intention of including the PP and Vox's desire to eliminate the law on the agenda of European institutions.