El Supremo estudia la Ley de Memoria Histórica also affects figuras de izquierdas

1. Batalla court
2. El Supremo admits a támite el recurso
3. Different political figures
4. The scope and meaning of the word “exaltation”.

The Controversial Chamber of the Supreme Court has accepted to consider the cassation appeal filed by the Vox Municipal Group and the Asociación Reivindicativa de la Memoria Histórica Raís in the Congress of Deputies against the judgment annulling the removal of the plaque belonging to Francisco Largo Caballero en la plaza de Chamberí.

El Partido Popular y Vox was approved in the pleno del Ayuntamiento in September 2020 an offer 26 In accordance with Article 15 of Law No. 52/2007 of December 2013, and with the application of Clause d) of Article 3.1 of the Municipal Regulation, it was erected in New Ministries.

Batalla court

PSOE started a legal battle to overturn this decision. Los Socialistas logaron que el Juzgado de lo Contencioso-Administrativo nº 1 de Madrid estimara su recurso por Judgment of October 7, 2022.

The judge understood, based on a previous ruling by the High Court of Madrid, that the removal of urban elements based on the 2007 Historical Memory Law (overridden by the 2022 Democratic Memory Law más dura con los symbols Franco) was that the name of a person or group strengthened that person's status. or the objective data and origin of the knowledge that it reinforces, and at the same time one of the 3 historical hits must be calculated. Article 15 of the Historical Remembrance Law: the military uprising of 1936, the Spanish Civil War or the subsequent repression of the dictatorship.

A la vista del expediente sobre las avenidas a Largo Caballero e Indalecio Prieto y la placa del primero, el juez considered that que que no existín data temporales preciso que vinculen los fecos que se se se se atribuyen a los fecos que se se se se atribuyen a los personajes que danes In danesy la plaza de Chamberí, it is explained how facts relating to historical hits and characters, as provided for in Article 15.1 of the Law of Historical Memory, support the promotion of hits investigated under the Law of Historical Memory.

Vox and the Asociación Reivindicativa de la Memoria Histórica Raíces appealed to the Supreme Court of Justice of Madrid, which dismissed the appeal in a 2023 ruling. Plaques, streets and statues in Largo Caballero and Prieto for Madrid TSJ. It does not in itself constitute the rise that requires the Law of Historical Memory, sino que responden a una mención commemorativa a quienes empeñaron cargos de relevancia (presidente del Consejo de Ministros, y ministro) y tivenun una trajección politica.

El Supremo admits a támite el recurso

The municipal group of the Santiago Abascal party and the aforementioned union then filed a cassation appeal with the Supreme Court.

Confidential Digital consulted auto The Sala de lo Contencioso del Supremo dictated a few weeks ago, at the beginning of October 2024, thereby acknowledging the acceptance of the cassation appeal against the judgment of the TSJ of Madrid confirming the annulment of the agreement of the City Council. Madrid ordered the removal of Largo Caballero y Prieto de las calles de la Capital de España.

The petitioners argued that the “Ley de Memoria Histórica virtud de la Exposición de Motivos de la citada, la citada Ley es sensibile aplicarse a figuras de distinto distinto signo politico durante el periodo histórico a discussion”.

Different political figures

Los magistrados del Supremo believed that “this resource presents the interests of interest for the formation of jurisprudence.

The first point that the High Tribunal will investigate to resolve this resource is to clarify what is the subjective scope of Article 15 of Law No. 52/2007 of December 26, “On Historical Memory”, and whether it applies to political figures. politics”.

Article 1 of the article It states that “public authorities in the exercise of their powers shall take appropriate measures for the removal of personal or collective military insurrection, civil war or military insurrection, military mutiny or military insurrection, shields, insignia, plaques and other objects or memorials . From the repressions of the dictatorship”.

Based on this article, the various administrations started a new phase of cancellation, cancellation and replacement of toponym changes (streets, squares…) and other relics (escudos, plaques, monuments…) commemorating Francisco Franco, personalities and symbols. elements of the dictatorship, the military of the rebel group of the Civil War of 1936.

For example, during the time of Manuela Carmena, the same Ayuntamiento de Madrid changed several of the streets of General Milan Astray, the founder of the Legion, justifying that they violated the law by recalling the identities of the “Franquistas”.

But the PP and Vox in the Madrid City Council were supported in the same article to remove or change the memorial elements of a group that rebelled in the civil war, nor of a dictatorship, but of a republican group: Francisco Largo Caballero, socialist leader and from September 1936 to May 1937 President of the Council of Ministers and Indalecio Prieto of the PSOE during the war and ministro de Marina, Aire y Defensa Nacional.

Now the Supreme Court will analyze Article 15 of the Law on “Historical Memory” – although it was repealed by the Law of Democratic Memory. similar but more durable– It also affects not only the personalities from the group, but also the “political figure of different political significance”, so that Largo Caballero and Prieto can be compared with the leaders of the military uprising and dictatorship of 1936.

The scope and meaning of the word “exaltation”.

The Sala de lo Contencioso del Supremo also saw the purpose of cassation interest for the formation of jurisprudence with the aim of clarifying, completing or elucidating the scope and meaning of the concept of individual or collective promotion, referred to in article 15.1 of the law. “52/2007, de 26 de diciembre, por la que se reconocunen y amplían derechos y se establecen medidas en lehte de quienes padecieron persecution and violence during the civil war and dictatorship”.

More specifically, it seeks to determine whether “withdrawal of shields, insignia, plaques and other objects or records must be justified by acts or conduct objectively falling within the concept of raising a military insurrection. civil war y de la dictatorship o si, por el contrario, la exaltación comprende la mera in todos or alguno de estos acontecimientos históricos, como pudiera ser el hecho de haber dempescado cargos públicos relevant”.

For example, Largo Caballero y Prieto empeñaron cargos publices en la Guerra Civil: el TS estudiará si eso ya significa que una calle con su nombre supone exaltación de la Guerra Civil, o detataques, o detataques calls. Estatuas solo se justificaría for “actions or objective subsumibles in el koncepto de exaltación de la levevación military, de la guerra civil and dictatorship”.