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On 17 July 2012, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, vice president and Spokesperson of the government, stated during parliamentary questioning that the PP government of President Mariano Rajoy had no intention of following the recommendations of the Expert Commission with respect to the removal of the remains of Franco, the relocation of the remains of Primo de Rivera within the Basilica, or ...
Franco was the second person interred in the Santa Cruz basilica. Franco had earlier interred José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Falange movement, who was executed by the Republican government in 1936 and was buried by the Francoist government under a modest gravestone on the nave side of the altar. Primo de Rivera died on 20 ...
In government since mid-2018 and facing a national election next month, the Socialists have long sought to exhume Franco, who unleashed the civil war that killed around 500,000 people between 1936 ...
The remains of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco were removed from his burial place at the Valley of the Fallen on October 24, and reinterred at the cemetery of Mingorrubio near the capital ...
Francisco Franco Bahamonde [f] [g] (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.
The Valley of the Fallen outside Madrid seems peaceful enough on a sunny spring day but, with national elections just around the corner, its distinction as the burial place of Francisco Franco has ...
Francisco Franco (1892–1975), general and dictator (Caudillo of Spain (1936–1975)), relocated from Valle de los Caídos on 24 October 2019 [1] Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás (1900–1988), Franco's wife, Grandee of Spain; The 1st Marquess of Arias-Navarro (1908–1989), last Francoist Prime Minister of Spain (1973–1976)
Spain will temporarily shut the mausoleum where Francisco Franco is buried from Saturday to avoid any disturbances as authorities prepare to exhume the dictator's remains. Spain's ruling ...