The mayor of Cuenca, Darío Dolz, has received a legal report confirming that the vote to name adopted children of Cuenca to those deported to Nazi camps has been validated. In the council meeting, the proposal received thirteen votes in favor and twelve abstentions, which was initially not enough as a majority of three-fifths was required.
The councilor of Culture, María Ángeles Martínez, expressed her satisfaction for the recognition of nearly one hundred Cuencans deported to Nazi camps, where 60 of them died. She criticized the attitude of the councilors from the Popular Party and Vox for trying to justify their abstention on formal grounds.
The Vox councilor, Rafael Rodríguez, argued that his party's abstention was based on the fact that the titles of adopted children are meant for individual recognition and not group recognition. Despite this, the proposal received 13 votes in favor from the PSOE, Cuenca nos Une, and Cuenca en Marcha groups, and 12 abstentions from the Popular Party and Vox.
After the abstention of the PP and Vox in the extraordinary council meeting last week, the initiative to name adopted children for those deported to Nazi camps went ahead thanks to a positive report from the General Secretariat of the City Council of Cuenca.
The proposal aimed to grant the title of favored or adopted children to the victims who went through the Nazi camps between 1940 and 1945. For this, the work led by Ángel Luis López Villaverde and Herminio Lebrero was documented.
Various opinions have been expressed regarding this: for the councilor of the Popular Group, the tribute in an existing monument was already sufficient, while Cuenca en Marcha considers the vote to be an act of justice for the victims. "In this matter, there is no middle ground: you are either with the victims or with the executioners," concluded councilor Pablo García.
