Overview

• Law 1/2024, which repealed Cantabria’s 2021 Historical and Democratic Memory statute enacted by a PP-Vox majority, remains on hold indefinitely.
• Judges Enrique Arnaldo and Concepción Espejel issued a dissent arguing there is no demonstrated harm to constitutional rights that justifies the suspension.
• The dissenters also criticized the reliance on undefined “memorialistic rights” and warned the majority is preempting its eventual ruling on the law’s substance.
• The seven-member progressive bloc voted to maintain the suspension while a five-member conservative minority opposed the decision.
• In his appeal, Sánchez contended the repeal could violate constitutional guarantees of human dignity and victims’ rights under Articles 10 and 15 and infringe state powers.