The presidents of the associations for the recovery of historical memory of Tenerife, Mercedes Pérez Schwartz, La Palma, Aralda Rodríguez, and Gran Canaria, Pino Sosa met this Thursday, October 16, with the Canarian president in the regional Parliament.
Schwartz assured that the meeting was "quite fruitful" since it has been agreed to create a commission dependent on the Ministry of Presidency and Justice to make the census of possible graves and the identification through DNA of the corpses of those who disappeared during the Spanish Civil War.
The president of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory in Tenerife has assured that this is a special concern of the association in La Palma, since in this island the identifications are more advanced. In this regard, Aralda Rodríguez said that "the exhumation of corpses is the most worrying" since the bodies have been recovered but only the DNA of two is known.
"At the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) they analyze the DNA by maternal route and we want to transfer them by paternal route as well to advance the recognitions," he said. Apparently, Paulino Rivero has agreed.
Collaboration of the institutions
In addition, they managed to start the commitment to collaborate with the city councils and Cabildos to "in some way force them to comply with the Historical Memory Law, which is so important because there are places where there are real problems to comply with them."
Among the sites where there are difficulties for its compliance, Schwartz pointed out Santa Cruz de Tenerife, whose local corporation accuses of being "asleep on its laurels". "Some because they are not interested in changing the names and others because it seems that they do not give it importance," he said.
Finally, regarding the Non-Law Proposals (PNL) presented in Parliament to support the fulfillment of this Law, he declared: "What interests us is that any initiative is approved unanimously and then carried out." In that sense, he assured that the conversation with the president of the Canarian Government has reassured them "in the sense that they are effectively going to start working".
Regarding the objections for a PNL of the socialist parliamentary group to go ahead, he said: "On the previous occasion there was a problem with the PP, which does not assume that it is a Law approved even though they voted against it, and the other time it was they who refused to approve that initiative".
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