Overview
- Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez presided over a national ceremony at Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional marking the Oct. 31 remembrance established by the Democratic Memory Law.
- The government delivered declarations of reparation to families and living honorees, with the roster including Federico García Lorca, Luis Buñuel, Maruja Mallo, María Luis Ramos, Margot Moles, Josefina Samper, Melchor Rodríguez, Diego José Paulino and the twelve women murdered at Barranco de Víznar.
- Sánchez used his address to warn against historical revisionism, citing regional rollbacks of memory laws and the refusal to designate Madrid’s Real Casa de Correos as a site of democratic memory.
- The government began steps to seek the judicial dissolution of the Francisco Franco Foundation, announcing a Culture Ministry notice to the entity and a plan to accelerate the process.
- He also said the Council of Ministers will approve on Tuesday the granting of Spanish nationality to nearly 170 descendants of the International Brigades under the Democratic Memory Law.