Overview
- The state bulletin published the resolution on October 22 designating the former Dirección General de Seguridad site at Puerta del Sol as a Lugar de Memoria Democrática.
- The order, signed on October 20 by Secretary of State for Democratic Memory Fernando Martínez López, cites torture, imprisonment and political persecution from 1939 to 1979 and seeks recognition of victims.
- Such designations normally include a commemorative plaque, explanatory materials and exhibitions, measures the regional government has resisted at the building.
- In July the Constitutional Court lifted a suspension on a Madrid regional law that lets President Isabel Díaz Ayuso decide whether plaques can be installed on the headquarters, opening the door to a veto.
- The resolution can be contested via a recurso de reposición, as national officials defend the move and minister Ángel Víctor Torres welcomes the recognition of abuses under the dictatorship.