Posted on 03/15/2019 10:55:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
MADRID —
Spain will exhume the body of dictator Francisco Franco to remove it from a state mausoleum seen by many as a monument to fascism, the Socialist government announced on Friday, in one of its last moves before a snap election due on April 28.
The plan to move divides opinion in a country conflicted about the dictatorship that ended with his death in 1975. The exhumation has been delayed several times, but the government said on Friday it would go ahead on June 10.
Franco will be taken from the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum to be reburied next to his wife, Carmen Polo, in the family tomb at Mingorrubio El Pardo, a state cemetery where various political figures are buried, in a ceremony without media coverage, Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo said.
His family opposes the exhumation and has taken the issue to courts, but the Supreme Court has been silent so far.
"The dictator's family and those around them have made use of every available legal instrument ... forcing delays in the process," Calvo said after cabinet agreed to push ahead.
She added that if a new government emerging from next month's election were to try to cancel the reburial, it would first have to change the so-called historical memory law, approved in 2007, that condemns the Franco regime
El Independiente newspaper quoted Luis Felipe Utrera-Molina, a lawyer for the Franco family, as dismissing the decision as "fireworks" and saying the government could not legally access Franco's burial place to exhume the remains.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez promised to remove Franco's remains before the end of his term, one of several high-profile measures intended to appeal to left-wing voters.
The Socialists have long sought to transform the Valley of the Fallen into a memorial to victims of the civil war in which 500,000 combatants and civilians were killed.
The party is ahead in opinion polls but well short of parliament majority.
Support for far-right party Vox, which wants Franco's remains to stay where they are, has been growing since it won seats in an Andalusian election in 2018 — in the first electoral success for a far-right party since Spain's return to democracy.
Franco's family had said if his remains are removed, he should be reinterred at the Almudena Roman Catholic Cathedral in central Madrid, where his daughter is buried.
Many US-friendly WWII combatants were smuggled back to Allied countries. Franco kept a lid on crime until his death (of natural causes).
The Left will change that as they practice cultural cleansing.
As a very lib elementary school teacher told our class circa 1958, ‘Yes, Franco sent some troops to fight for Germany. But they were real volunteers, not like the Chinese People’s Volunteers in Korea.’
Yes, but in Boston, there are TOO many imported libtards.
Saw that one as well— the Spanish Civil War was particularly vicious. The current events of the leftists trying to keep their hold on the spanish parliament, is indicative of the Sovereign shift of the countries of the EU. Brexit, Italexit,
and soon Spain-exit? The German nazi dream of a European Common Market run by them... is backfiring from their very socialism and the social welfare system bankrupted by their own terrible demographics— not enough baby real Germans being born... for several generations— to keep up the capitation/tax support. Answer—why— import a bunch of muzzies with no skills— who hate....jews. Yep, the ticket. Germans actuating a EU wave of muslim/ Moorish invasion.
“.. — import a bunch of muzzies with no skills— …”
They all can’t be sewer workers & street cleaners!
Meant to say to you— great analysis of the real time happenings in Spain. 700 years— needed to refresh that fact in my mind. The “Moorish” architectural conversions of Catholic cathedrals... everything fits the pattern. The muzzy caliphate want’s their colony back.
Have some French friends (no doubt considered... “nuts”) reviving the memory of Charles Martel and Tours. Islam is not a religion— it is a political force masked as “religion”. Come to think of it... like the religion of enviro-whackos, and the democrat party in the US— it is Statism as the religion in the same manner, and partnering with these miscreants and their financing (used be with Talwaleed, until bin Salman the Crown Prince changed all that).
Gonna be interesting to see.
Pray they get kicked out... down the curb in the sewer. Out dated proven failure, trying to re-destroy great Spain. Get them out of the EU.... too!.
His job was essentially the same as Tito’s in the former Yugoslavia during the Cold War. . Stay neutral, keep the different internal factions from killing each other and stay in power............................Hat Trick...............
I didn’t expect that!..................
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