Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE).- The Deputy Minister of Culture, Juan Márquez, has indicated that nothing is going to prevent him from continuing to work to enforce the Law of Historical Memory and the removal of Francoist vestiges because, he has warned, the TSJC has not entered in the corresponding catalog content, but in the form.
In statements to EFE, the regional vice-counselor for Culture and Cultural Heritage has specified that the decision of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) to temporarily suspend the catalog of Francoist vestiges does not imply in any case that the Santa Cruz City Council is right de Tenerife, but questions the form, the publication.
Juan Márquez recalled that the TSJC states that, according to article 12.2 of the regional law on Historical Memory, the catalog must be published in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands and therefore questions that the regional government has done so in relation to the corresponding order to your approval, but not with the catalog itself, which links to a page on the Internet.
The vice-counselor has justified said decision in that the catalog consists of 2,596 pages and has stressed that if that is the defect in form found by the TSJC “we will publish as soon as possible” said document in the BOC, possibly in an extraordinary edition.
When it is published, the Canarian high court will be notified to lift the suspension, added Juan Márquez, to reiterate that it is a simple procedure and that it is not “something that is relevant” in a “very broad” document.
There are several associations that are trying to “delay” the process of compliance with both state and regional historical memory provisions, continued Márquez, who has been convinced that there will be “problems and controversies” once again in the coming weeks when update the catalog.
It will foreseeably be in June when the technical commission for the historical memory of the Canary Islands meets to discuss updating the catalog in the six remaining island capitals based on “very rigorous” scientific and academic work prepared by specialists from the University of La Laguna. .
For this reason, the vice-councillor has demanded “absolute respect” first, for compliance with the legislation and for the reparation of the memory of the victims of Francoism and, therefore, has added, to the scientific work of the experts in the field, who often encounter difficulties due to the status of some files.
The technical commission of historical memory of the Canary Islands is made up of public universities and associations in the area under the presidency of the Minister of Justice, Julio Pérez, and if the update of the catalog is reported favorably, the head of Culture, Manuela de Weapons, to publish the relevant order.
This will be done until the catalog of Francoist vestiges in the 88 Canary Islands municipalities is completed, for which the corresponding agreement with the University of La Laguna has set a deadline of 2025.
“We will continue working and nothing is going to prevent us from moving forward to comply with the precepts of state and regional laws with the rigor provided by certified academic and scientific work with records and documents”, specified the Canary Islands Deputy Minister of Culture and Cultural Heritage. EFE