HJ&M Network member Vincent Druliolle (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid) reports that the new conservative government in Madrid is unlikely to order the exhumation of Francisco Franco’s remains. The exhumation had been recommended by a commission appointed to discuss the future of the Valley of the Fallen, the monument glorifying Franco’s victory in the Civil War. We had reported the current controversy in Spain in an entry posted earlier this week.
Former Spanish Dictator Franco Unlikely To Be Exhumed
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These are difficult times in Spain and everyone [sic] will have to give up part of his/her welfare. So we are reminded around the clock by spokespersons of the government elect. But the times may be hard too for those who ever flirted with the idea that for once, justice would be made on behalf of the victims of the Franco regime. Many of us already had enough when we saw his grand-daughter on TV, as an invited guest in the Spanish version of Dancing with the Stars. In my case, I needed to remind my students how her family made the fortune that made her rich and famous. However, the vagueness of the prospective new authorities concerning the recommendation to have Franco’s remains removed from the current site is outrageous to the memory of the victims of his regime and their children. Months ago I interviewed a survivor of the forced-labour gangs that build up the Valley of the Fallen. He was confident that the monument would be ‘flattened into a parking lot’. I’m afraid the attitude of Partido Popular in this regard may be an omen of the policies that await the memory of the Civil War -Franco’s remains will be resting on in his mausoleum; those of thousands of Loyalists executed will continue in unmarked tombs on roadsides.