The Ministry of Participation, Transparency, Cooperation and Democratic Quality last week received the keys of Alicante Port’s former Outer Health building from the Port Authority. This symbolic move is the starting signal by which the steps will be accelerated, so that Valencia Institute of Democratic MemoryBringing continuity to Ximo Puig’s commitment to decentralization for the Community of Valencia, the same as the president promoted for the State as a whole, it will come into operation next year before the end of the current legislature.
In this way, Alicante will be the home of democratic memory policies that will be raised from the past to the present. generalitat, with an institute consisting of a staff of fifteen professionals who will have operational autonomy. After receiving the keys from the ministry headed by Rosa Pérez Garijo, work is underway on a draft of the property’s project, a document expected to be completed this month or early July at the latest. Once the draft is complete, work will take place for an estimated eight months, lasting until March next year, and is therefore targeted to open the doors of Consel’s new headquarters in Alicante. fulfillment. in the current job.
Goals
The Institute was born from Law No. 14/2017 of democratic memory and for the coexistence of society. Valencian CommunityOne of its aims is to examine, research and promote the measures contained in the law itself. With regard to the economic section, for the estimation of the costs incurred in its creation and initiation, the economic report of the preliminary draft law of democratic memory and the annual budget of the Institute of Coexistence and Memory of the Community of Valencia, the Gogora of Coexistence and Human Rights of the Basque Country.
The financial report foresees costs for: Location, exhumation and identification of missing victims. Placement costs reach 900,000 Euros, exhumation costs 4,600,000 Euros and identification costs 2,819,600 Euros. Reburial work reaches 1,600,000 euros. Other minor costs are obtaining and copying documents (€ 100,000) or disclosure (€50,000). Regarding the subsidy lines, cooperation with local organizations and memorial artists and universities is set at 480,000 euros.
As far as the field of activity of the new institute is concerned, it is responsible for functions related to identification, compensation and recognition of victims, promotion of knowledge, promotion and dissemination of democratic memory. coordination, cooperation and administrative cooperation with organizations and other public administrations on historical and democratic memory and, inter alia, the coordination of the actions of the different ministries in this regard.
Organization chart
The organizational chart of the Memory Institute consists of: fifteen professionals: one general manager, one assistant general manager, two service chiefs, three branch managers, four technicians and four assistant managers. The cost of staff is 662,695 euros, to which should be added 71.504 euros for the position of general manager; this represents 31% of the private budget for the first year at full capacity of Consel’s new headquarters in Alicante: 2,240,833 euros.
Regarding its physical space, it should be noted that the office will occupy an area. 630 square meters of land, on Alicante public domain land located at the roundabout on Avenida Perfecto Palacio de la Fuente. An investment of 900,000 Euros will be made to condition it.