Posted on Apr 24, 2023
Primo de Rivera: Spain exhumes fascist Falange leader
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Felix Bolaños, minister for the prime minister's office, said Monday's exhumation went "one step further" in converting the monument into a site that did not glorify the dictatorship.
According to the Democratic Memory Law, the community of Benedictine monks which currently manages the Cuelgamuros site will have to leave. The community's priory head - who sought to block the 2019 exhumation of Franco - has said that "it will not be easy" to remove them.
The political opposition has criticised the exhumation, casting it as a ploy by the prime minister to mobilise voters ahead of May's local elections.
Madrid's mayor said the move interested "all those who understand politics as opening up the wounds of the past rather than trying to create a future for all of us."...
..."Felix Bolaños, minister for the prime minister's office, said Monday's exhumation went "one step further" in converting the monument into a site that did not glorify the dictatorship.
According to the Democratic Memory Law, the community of Benedictine monks which currently manages the Cuelgamuros site will have to leave. The community's priory head - who sought to block the 2019 exhumation of Franco - has said that "it will not be easy" to remove them.
The political opposition has criticised the exhumation, casting it as a ploy by the prime minister to mobilise voters ahead of May's local elections.
Madrid's mayor said the move interested "all those who understand politics as opening up the wounds of the past rather than trying to create a future for all of us."...
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