Tellado promises to repeal the Democratic Memory Law if Feijóo reaches Moncloa: "It will not have Bildu's seal for one more day"

The general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, assured this Monday that a Government presided over by Alberto Núñez Feijóo will repeal the Democratic Memory Law in its first Council of Ministers. The popular leader defended that this norm "will not have the seal of Bildu for one more day." The announcement was made during the tribute held in Madrid on the occasion of the twenty-ninth anniversary of the assassination of Miguel Ángel Blanco, an act held in the gardens named after the PP councilor assassinated by ETA and which was also attended by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and the president of the Miguel Ángel Blanco Foundation, Mari Mar Blanco.

In his speech, Tellado vindicated the figure of Miguel Ángel Blanco as a symbol shared by all Spanish society. "Miguel Ángel was from our party. They killed him for being from our party. But his figure and his name are not the heritage of our party. Miguel Ángel Blanco is the heritage of all Spaniards," he stated.

The popular leader also accused Pedro Sánchez's Executive of having promoted a "whitewashing of the heirs of terror" and maintained that the greatest reproach to the Government is having brought the PSOE closer to Bildu. "Sánchez has dragged the PSOE from the spirit of Ermua to the wall, to confrontation and division. And he has put Otegi on his side of the wall," he pointed out.

In addition to committing to repealing the Democratic Memory Law, Tellado assured that a PP Executive will prohibit tributes to ETA members and that penitentiary policy will again be governed by "the effective fulfillment of sentences and respect for victims." He also stated that his party will not agree "anything with the heirs of terrorism."

Ayuso celebrates Tellado's words

During her speech, Ayuso celebrated the commitment announced by Tellado and stated that the repeal of the Democratic Memory Law constitutes "the key" to ending a norm that, in her opinion, "should never have been born." She also assured that Pedro Sánchez "needs to continue living from factions, from civil war and from hatreds" and defended that the PP will continue to remember the victims of terrorism "in schools, in institutions and in the streets."

Regarding ETA, Ayuso did not spare harshness. She defined it as "a murderous and mafia gang" and attributed to it a footprint that she considers permanent in the Basque Country, having "vitiated the census" of the region "forever, expelling thousands of good families from their land." Likewise, she lamented that many of its former members still do not ask for forgiveness and that, "on many occasions," they have chosen to vindicate that period, either as "protagonists" or as "heirs" of it.