On Friday, the Spanish government will approve the decree-law, which will then be voted on in Congress. Although so far they have acted with a small mouth, on Wednesday the spokesmen of Ciudadanos and the PP have clearly explained that they will not support the legislative decree, they will abstain. In fact, the people have demonstrated their intention to appeal to the Constitutional Court under the pretext of the technical formula of the decree-law.

The president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, announced at the beginning of the summer that they were soon to remove the bones of the fascist dictator from the monument, but along the way he has encountered numerous legal problems and opposition from the extreme right that defends Francoism. The heirs of Franco, for example, want to use the concordat that the Spanish regime signed with the Vatican at the time to try to prevent the initiative.

The Verdicts of the Franco Era

The Spanish government has expressed its willingness to take a step that is symbolically much more important than what to do with Franco’s body, modifying the Law of Historical Memory: the abandonment of all sentences and punishments of Franco.

This is a long-standing demand from victims’ associations and the PSOE spokesman, Andriana Lastra, explains that this decree will also be released, according to the agreement with the ERC.