The Government "extends a hand" to the Consell to reach an agreement on the Concordia Law and avoid going to the Constitutional Court

The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, has "extended a hand" to the Consell to reach an agreement on the Concordia Law , approved by PP and Vox a few months ago in Les Corts. Otherwise, he warned that the Government will appeal it to the Constitutional Court (TC) as happened with the Aragon norm.

The socialist minister has reproached the president of the Generalitat, the popular Carlos Mazón, for going ahead with this "law of discord" despite Vox's departure from the Consell since last July: "He should have learned from what happened in the Parliament of Castilla y León," where PP and PSOE have halted this norm.

The communication sent sets the deadline to accept or not the proposal for dialogue until next Monday 30th. Torres explained that the Government's intention is for the Consell to return "to common sense, logic, defense of democracy, condemnation of totalitarianism and dictatorship." The minister urged Mazón to negotiate and "remove from his law the parameters of democratic regression."

If there is no agreement, the Government will "logically" go to the TC to stop a law that "should never have been admitted for processing" because "it made no sense" and "was an imposition by Vox" before their departure from the Consell. "What sense does it make for a community where Vox leaves the government to continue with a law of discord?" he asked.

Torres reiterated that "the so-called Concordia Law violates international law and hinders the work of memorialistic entities," while advocating for the 2017 Democratic Memory Law that "exalted the values that democracy always had during the Second Republic against years of absence of freedoms and rights under Francoism."

After recalling what "society lost during those four decades," he warned that currently "those threats are disguised in pseudo-democratic or anti-democratic garb, from parties that want to return to the dark past of our history."

For all these reasons, the minister urged Mazón to "learn from what happened in the Parliament of Castilla y León," where his Concordia Law was not processed this week "by an overwhelming majority" for "putting shameful issues on the table."