Mayor Oreja : Franco's Apologist

This is great, the Partido Popular members are finally coming out of the closet to display their fascist colors in all of its rancid glory.

Here you have an excerpt of a note called "Jaime Mayor Oreja and the Historical Memory Law" appeared at Typically Spanish :

Some older Spaniards do have romantic memories about the Franco years. You sometimes hear comments such as ‘There was no crime then’ or ‘Nobody had to lock their doors’, and so on. But the general reality was one of comparative poverty and suffering, unless you had your personal ‘enchufe’ or contacts to get ahead.

More than a little bit surprising then to hear the words of Jaime Mayor Oreja earlier this week. He was the Minister for the Interior in the Aznar administration, the same administration sold to the public at the time as the one which had moved to the centre of the political landscape. He was the P.P.’s unsuccessful candidate for lehendakari in the Basque region, and is now a P.P. Euro M.P.

Jaime Mayor Oreja told the ‘La Voz de Galicia’ newspaper this week that he refused to condemn the Franco years.

‘Why should I condemn the Franco years?’ he said, ‘when many families lived naturally and normally. How am I going to condemn something which, without doubt, represented a very wide section of Spaniards?’, he added.

He even went on to say that during Franco’s time the Basque Country was a tranquil place, so much so that many Guardia Civil asked for transfers there.

The current P.P. General Secretary Ángel Acebes supported the comments from Mayor Oreja, claiming the new law is breaking the agreement of consensus found during the transition to democracy.

Excellent, now judges like Baltasr Garzón, Juan del Olmo and Fernando Grande-Marlaska have all the elements to order the arrest of both Mayor and Acebes for their open apology of Francoist terrorism.

Imagine, Batasuna members are in jail for not condemning ETA's violence , without even speaking on favor. Now we have to prominent leaders of the Partido Popular supporting Franco's regime, it will be way easier to prosecute them.

Oh yes, sorry, this is the real world, that is never going to happen, the judges and the PP members are one and the same.

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