Spanish lawmakers will vote Thursday on a controversial bill which seeks to rehabilitate the memory of leftwing victims of Spain's 1936-39 civil war and Francisco Franco's dictatorship.
A protester carries a banner with the picture of Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco during a protest outside Madrid's Supreme Court calling on the government to ban the burial of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid, after he is exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen, in Madrid, Spain, September 24, 2019. REUTERS/Juan Medina
Franco assumed power after the civil war in which his Nationalists defeated Republicans, leaving the country in ruins and mourning hundreds of thousands of dead. In 2019 he had Franco's remains removed from a vast mausoleum near Madrid and transferred to a discreet family plot. The bill is expected to be approved by a narrow majority in Spain's lower house of parliament later Thursday."The State must exhume the remains of the victims of the Franco dictatorship," Sanchez told parliament on Tuesday, adding "there are still 114,000 disappeared in Spain," mostly Republicans.
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