At least, that’s Pedro Sánchez’s guarantee. Government has a list of dictatorship symbols to remove from all sides.
Statues, military emblems, names of streets, squares and avenues in honor of Francisco Franco – everything will be removed in Spain.
This Wednesday, during a debate in Parliament, Pedro Sanchez announced that the Official State Bulletin (BOE) will publish, within a month at the latest, the catalog of Francoist elements and symbols.
Sánchez is thus moving forward with the Democratic Memory Lawwhich requires the State to create a catalog of Francoist symbols and elements that must be removed from public spaces.
Regarding the removal of these elements, the Prime Minister said that “democratic memory can be plural, but it must respect the principles of tolerance and democracy that it defends and which are enshrined in the Spanish Constitution”.
The idea is that these memories “are withdrawn once and for all of our country and our streets”, assured the Prime Minister of Spain.
Among several streets and squares named after Franco, there is a well-known monument associated with the dictator: the It’s worth two Fallenin Madrid.
The matter arose due to the intervention of the parliamentary spokeswoman for EH Bildu, a Basque nationalist party. Deputy Mertxe Aizpurua denounced that there is “fascist organizations, Francoists, extremists or even Nazis who act with total impunity” because, he claims, his actions are not punished or have consequences.
Mertxe Aizpurua wanted to know what measures the Spanish Government will adopt “to put an end to the exaltation of Francoism”.
And that was when the Prime Minister reacted: “We believe that It’s time to take action“.
On November 20th, Spain will mark the 50th anniversary of the death of General Franco.
Sánchez recalled that this date will be used to start the Transition – with, for example, the reform of the law on associations with the aim of “closing and dismantling the Francisco Franco Foundation”, cites the radio.
