Governing socialists say FNFF fails to comply with legislation that forbids any attempt to glorify regime
The Democratic Memory law contains provisions for closing down foundations that apologise for Francoism, ‘glorifying the coup d’etat, the dictatorship or its leaders’.The Democratic Memory law contains provisions for closing down foundations that apologise for Francoism, ‘glorifying the coup d’etat, the dictatorship or its leaders’.
The legislation contains provisions for closing down foundations that “act contrary to the general interest by apologising for Francoism, glorifying the coup d’etat, the dictatorship or its leaders, and which disdain and humiliate the victims of the coup d’etat, of the war and of Francoism, or which directly or indirectly incite hatred or violence against them”.
“Judges will have the last word,” he said. “It is the responsibility of this ministry to scrupulously comply with the Democratic Memory law. That is what we’ve done, what we’re doing today, and what we will carry on doing.” As well as holding a library of more than 30,000 documents at its headquarters close to Madrid’s Bernabéu stadium, the foundation sells books and a selection of patriotic ties, belts, cufflinks and swimming trunks on its website. Its executive president is a former marine general and its honorary president is Franco’s great-grandson Luis Alfonso de Borbón.
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