(ANSA) - MADRID, 20 JUL - The Spanish government has given the green light to a new bill on the victims of the Civil War (1936-1939) and of the dictatorial regime established until 1975 by the winner of that conflict, Francisco Franco. The text, which will soon face the necessary steps in Parliament, provides for several new measures aimed at promoting moral compensation for the thousands of victims caused by Francoism and their families and at least partially filling the historical debt of the State towards them. The question of overcoming war and dictatorship is a thorny question that still today causes great divisions in society and in the Spanish political world.
The new law - conceived as a continuation of one approved in 2007 by the government of the then Prime Minister José LuisRodríguez Zapatero - provides, among other things, the annulment of the sentences decreed by Francoist courts, the repudiation of the state as regards the attempted military State strike which unleashed the Civil War (fought between Franco's troops and those of the then Spanish Republic, the official order of the time in the Iberian country), as well as the subsequent dictatorship, greater promotion of the exhumation of victims buried in mass graves, the deepening of school curricula with regard to the study of Franco's repression, the creation of a specific public prosecutor's function to investigate criminals committed during the war and the dictatorship andextinction of foundations that apologize for Francoism, such as the Francisco Franco Foundation, which currently exists. (HANDLE).