Franco exhumation: what you need to know
Thursday sees the remains of Spain's late dictator removed from the Valley of the Fallen memorial site to a family tomb near Madrid
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Supreme Court authorizes exhumation of Spain’s late dictator Francisco Franco
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Far-right organization protests against removal of dictator’s remains from Valley of the Fallen
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Spanish Parliament calls for removal of Franco’s remains from ‘Valle los Caídos’ while PP’s abstains
The Spanish Parliament approved a bill this Thursday presented by the Spanish Socialist Party aimed at removing the mortal remains of the two dictators Francisco Franco and José Antonio Primo de Rivera’s from the Valle de los Caídos basilica. The text calls for this monumental complex to “stop being a Francoist and national-catholic landmark” and to instead be turned into “a space for reconciliation and collective and democratic memory, aimed at dignifying and recognizing the victims of the Spanish Civil War and of the dictatorship”. Although it was a non-binding proposal, the governing Spanish Conservative, People’s Party (PP), abstained from voting. Catalan left-wing pro-independence ERC also abstained, but because they considered the proposal to be insufficient.