Portal de Murcia
www.portaldemurcia.com
The book "From the Republic to Francoism, Legality, legitimacy and Historical Memory", "comes to cover this gap [that jurists deal with our recent past], with rigor and with good style, personal, not only grammatical, of deep-rooted democratic convictions and with the methodological solvency of a well-trained jurist ".
This is thanks to the former president of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the book by Antonio López Martínez, which was presented today on Tuesday at the UMU Law Degrees Hall by himself, the Rector of the University of Murcia José Luján, the daughter of the author Juana López, Head of the International and European Projects Department of the General Directorate of Institutional Policy of the Government of Spain, and the editor, José López Hernández, Professor of Philosophy of Law at the UMU.
In a Hall of Degrees that could hardly accommodate a third of the public who attended the event, and to which Rector Luján wanted to give the appearance of a doctoral thesis court, given the circumstance that the author of the work died when he was On the verge of defending the thesis that would have conferred on him the degree of Doctor, Zapatero affirmed that "We are before the work of a man who loved the republican good", and added that it is the first great study on the Legal Memory that is carried out in this country.
Rodríguez Zapatero assures that this work contributes "to the full compliance of the Law of Historical Memory, to the objective that the reparation of the victims and their families be as great as possible, and to the just homage to those who have fought and are fighting for it.
The former president affirmed that the law of Historical Memory that he defends is a tribute to all those who, like his own father, could not defend it, but they had the courage not to submit to any type of intimidation, neither intellectual nor political, also knowing that courage was a noble courage, it is not a courage of revenge, but of justice. "
He commented that, at some point in the Democracy, a law was needed to deepen the rights of the victims, in the elimination of the vestiges and symbols of the Franco regime, in the declaration of the illegitimacy of the Franco dictatorship and in the recognition of the victims of the Civil War.
Zapatero added that "normally the laws of Historical Memory come when there is a transition from a dictatorship to a Democracy, but this law comes 40 years later", adding that "I applaud and congratulate those who made the Transition, and I do it on behalf of the left".
"This is an act of recognition to the heroes of the Historical Memory, an act of recognition to the victims and of affirmation of what we have been able to do when they have let us be free and live in democratic respect", adding that precisely for that reason "it is an act of recognition of the democracy of 1978".
"How much I would have liked to debate with Antonio López Martínez," he said to the relatives, "that you know that you have vindicated the memory of your father and husband." "That you know finally affirmed that if he were President right now he would make a decree I would give him the title of Doctor Honoris Causa with outstanding cum laude for his work, but, above all, for his life ".
For his part, the Rector Luján, said that this work is, and will continue to be, a reference work in the future, which talks about legitimacy and illegitimacy, "what does not stop being to talk about our day to day and our position of citizens committed to the past and the future ".
The daughter of the author, Juana López, expressed her emotion at the event, and assured that her father's life was centered in her family, "but her passion was the law", and commented that "our father would be deeply proud that Citizenship has put forward values ​​such as equality, social justice and solidarity at this crucial moment, "adding that" with this publication, we know that the will of the author is fulfilled. "
The author
Born in Archena in 1945, the son of a scribe committed to the social and political struggle and the owner of a traditional oven from which his family lived, Antonio López Martínez graduated in Law from the University of Murcia at the beginning of the 70s.
The book that was presented today was to be the doctoral thesis of Antonio López Martínez, but in 2010, shortly before being defended, a disease ended his life.
It was concluded however, this work that is now presented and whose publication by the University of Murcia, through Editum, Publications Service of the UMU, in the edition of José López Hernández, was driven by his own children in what is intended to be a "tribute to his father and all those who were reprimanded for their ideas by the Franco regime."
"This book ensures their children in the publication - intended to be a contribution to the collective memory of the country and a scientific contribution that sheds light on this chapter of our history from a legal perspective."
The publication tries to expose the main norms dictated by the Second Republic, trying to place ourselves in the time in which they were promulgated, analyze from the perspective of Law the parliamentary sessions in which they were born, and address the two forms of State that followed one another in time "under the principles of legitimacy and legality in the fields of State and Law".
Source: Universidad de Murcia
Privacy policy
- Legal notice
- Cookies