Relatives and associations continue to rely on the courts

Garzon's decision not arredra to the families of victims of the dictatorship nor affected the associations for the historical memory that prompted the complaints with their case against the Franco regime. Some students submit an appeal to the High Court which is to take charge of the case, others will seize the opportunity opened by the judge in his own car, to shift their demands to the provincial courts. The most critical Garzon was the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH), whose makers expressed surprise at the fact that it has been a judge motu proprio who has chosen to defer the case, regardless of any resolution of the Criminal Division, declared extinct, and because the criminal responsibility of Franco and other senior members of the dictatorial regime already dead. The vice president of the association, the vice president Santiago Macias, ratified in the Cadena Ser that his team of lawyers discussed "what can be done" now. Other groups, such as Valencia and Granada, by contrast praised the actions of the judge. Progrés Society and the Foundation issued a statement in which he praises his courage to give "first plane" a matter that until now no one had been seized. "Thousands of people have regained confidence that the Justice may, on one side or the other way, contribute to his wound is finally closed," underline. The vice president of the association Granada, Rafael Gil, said it is positive because it implies that to happen to be in places where the events took place where it is practiced instruction. Chaves asked for more clarity The president of the PSOE and the Government of Andalusia, Manuel Chaves, spared no change in a comment on the matter and, at the press conference following the Governing Council, complained to Justice more clarity in reference to the tensions on the competition Garzon in the case, "so everyone knows what to expect." The spokesman for the PP in Congress, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, stressed however that the car is consistent with the position of the prosecution and some associations of judges' Time seems to have given the reason for those who believed that matter was not within its competence " He said.