The Diputación urges the Xunta to prevent the Franco Foundation from managing visits to the Pazo de Meirás | Radio Coruña

The Provincial Council of A Coruña urges the Xunta de Galicia to prevent the Francisco Franco Foundation continue with the management of the guided visits to the Pazo de Meirás, once a court ruling forces the Franco Family to return the property to the State. This is stated in an institutional statement approved unanimously by the plenary session of the provincial body.

The statement considers that the Francisco Franco Foundation uses these visits to make apology for the Franco dictatorship, for which he understands that the Galician government must activate all the necessary mechanisms so that it ceases to be in charge of the management of this activity, derived from its declaration as Asset of Cultural Interest. It concludes that these visits violate the Historical Memory Law.

The Pazo de Meirás, the statement includes, “continues to be used as a temple of Francoism, with guided tours that continue to defend the ideals of the movement, in breach of the Law of Historical Memory with impunity.”

The Diputacion of A Coruña is offered so that jointly with the City of Sada work is done so that the Pazo de Meirás includes the account of its entire history, since it was the property of the writer Emilia Pardo Bazán until the current sentence.

Finally, through the institutional declaration, “the work of all the people and entities that in recent years denounced this looting and participated in the recovery process of the Pazo de Meirás” is publicly recognized.

Motion on Monarchy and Republic

On the other hand, in the plenary session of the provincial body, with the votes against the PSOE and PP, a motion of the Atlantic Tide that demanded the celebration of a referendum to decide on the continuity of the monarchy, as well as promote an investigation Parliament on the emeritus king, Juan Carlos I, after judicial investigations into his patrimony.

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