Overview
- Lawmakers approved a motion urging that Barcelona's Via Laietana police headquarters be devoted entirely to a democratic memory center and transferred to the Generalitat.
- Junts, ERC, Comuns, CUP and Aliança Catalana backed the measure, the PSC abstained to allow it through, and PP and Vox voted against it.
- The plan asks Madrid to respond within a month and to formalize a transfer proposal within three months for a center preserving archives and interpreting torture and repression.
- Catalan Justice Minister Ramon Espadaler said creating a memorial is compatible with continued National Police use and affirmed respect for the parliamentary process.
- The Interior Ministry, which owns the building, maintains the police will stay, as legal objections from the CEP union and appeals from the PP and memorialist groups remain unresolved on the 50th anniversary of Franco's death.