Overview
- Twenty-four senators from PNV, ERC, Junts, EH Bildu, Geroa Bai, BNG, Compromís, Más Madrid, Agrupación Socialista Gomera, and the senator for Pitiusas registered the request on February 20.
- The written petition cites the 2022 Democratic Memory law and links Fraga to the March 3, 1976 Vitoria-Gasteiz killings, stating he was the minister responsible for public order at the time.
- The Senate’s governing Mesa must now consider the request, after previously rejecting similar bids, most recently in April 2023 when PP and PSOE members ruled the law did not apply.
- The bronze bust, located on the corridor leading to the hemicycle, was installed on January 15, 2013 following a Mesa decision, at the PP’s request and expense.
- PNV called Fraga’s continued presence in the chamber insulting, while EH Bildu argued that honoring a figure tied to state violence conflicts with the law’s duty of memory.