Posted on 06/18/2018 5:23:43 PM PDT by BBell
Madrid (AFP) - Spain's new Socialist government is determined to remove the remains of Francisco Franco from a vast mausoleum near Madrid and turn it into a place of "reconciliation" for a country still coming to terms with the dictator's legacy.
"We don't have a date yet, but the government will do it," Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said late Monday during his first television interview since being sworn in on June 2 after toppling his conservative predecessor Mariano Rajoy in a confidence vote.
He recalled that a non-binding motion approved last year in parliament called for Franco's remains to be exhumed from the massive Valley of the Fallen mausoleum some 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of Madrid and the site turned into a "memorial of the victims of fascism".
"Spain can't allow symbols that divide Spaniards. Something that is unimaginable in Germany or Italy, countries that also suffered fascist dictatorships, should also not be imaginable in our country," Sanchez added.
Earlier on Monday Socialist party spokesman Oscar Puente said the mausoleum should be transformed into a "place of reconciliation, of memory, for all Spaniards, and not of apology for the dictatorship."
Franco ruled Spain with an iron fist from the end of the country's 1936-39 civil war until his death in 1975, when he was buried inside a basilica drilled into the side of a mountain at the Valley of the Fallen, one of Europe's largest mass graves.
Built by Franco's regime between 1941 and 1959 -- in part by the forced labour of political prisoners -- in the granite mountains of the Sierra de Guadarrama, the monument holds the remains of more than 30,000 dead from both sides of the civil war, which was triggered by Franco's rebellion against an elected Republican government.
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This is what commies do best.
The NEXT government in Spain will put his remains right back, once they clear out the millions of ‘migrants’ that this clown is bringing in.
Obviously he didn’t kill enough Communists when he was in power
AND: the current King and Queen were in San Antonio, Texas this weekend for some tricentennial "Alamo" event and are set to visit Trump in D.C. tomorrow. :)
Lol, Pedro Sanchez?
Beyond disgusting. Franco saved the nation from - LITERALLY - being handed over to Stalin.
AND - he kept Spain from being devastated in WW2.
He is absolutely one of the truly heroic figures in the bloody history of Spain and the 20th Century in general (much like Gen Pinochet was in Chile).
The Marxist SCUM that is driving this is not worthy to shine his boots.
Ghouls.
Forgot about him.
I knew that would pop up!
The King and Queen were just in New Orleans for the tricentennial there. Making the rounds.
To the Left in Spain the civil war against Franco will never end.
Our top story tonight!!!!
He’s still dead?
While the former Soviet states in Eastern Europe swing hard right, Western Europe slides into collectivist/muslin darkness.
He’s still dead.
May your chains set lightly upon you
—John Adams
So is Chevy’s career.
Franco could have helped Hitler win, but he didn’t.
If Franco had allowed Hitler in to seize Gibraltar, Hitler would have been able to bar Allied access to the Mediterranean.
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