Transitional justice and impunity for fascism in southern Europe: The case of Spain in a comparative perspective by Roque Moreno Fonseret, Pedro Payá López

“…On the contrary, in the transitions of the late 1970s, criminal justice was applied minimally in Portugal, where administrative purges prevailed, and was non-existent in Spain, because of the Amnesty Law of 1977. Although impunity accompanied all the processes studied, the comparison reveals the singularity of the Spanish case, with a greater degree of consequence of a transition to a non-disruptive democracy with the Franco dictatorship. …”
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