The remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Falange party, are being removed from a grand basilica to be buried in a low-key family grave.
This is part of Spain’s efforts to stop the glorification of its fascist past.
Monday’s exhumation comes six months after Spain passed a law aimed at tackling the legacy of the 1936-39 civil war and decades of dictatorship that followed.
The party Primo de Rivera founded in 1933 became one of the pillars of Francisco Franco’s brutal regime, along with the military and Spain’s Roman Catholic Church.
Primo de Rivera was executed in November 1936 at the start of the war for conspiring against the elected Republican government.
He was buried in 1959 inside the basilica at the Valley of the Fallen, 50km (30 miles) northwest of Madrid, where the body of former dictator Franco also once lay.
The remains will be transferred to San Isidro Cemetery in Madrid. Primo de Rivera’s descendants chose April 24 because it falls exactly 120 years after his birth.
Quadri Adejumo covers World News, Health, Climate & Humanitarian.
0 Comment(s)
SPONSORED
HEADLINE
TRENDING