MADRID - Three people were arrested on Monday (April 24) after police clashed with sympathisers of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of Spain's fascist Falange movement that supported the Francoist regime, whose body was exhumed from a mausoleum near Madrid. Police struggled to hold back a crowd of about 150 Falange supporters gathered outside the San Isidro cemetery in...
Tombs of the Primo de Rivera family are seen on the San Isidro cemetery, where the remains of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of Spanish fascist Falange party, might be buried after being exhumed from the Franco-era monument known as "The Valley of the Fallen" on Monday in Madrid, Spain, April 23.
His exhumation, which follows the 2019 removal of the remains of dictator Francisco Franco, is part of a plan to convert the complex built by Franco on a mountain near the capital into a memorial to the 500,000 people killed during Spain's 1936-39 civil war. The Falange party continues to exist but does not have any seats in parliament. In 2019, the anti-immigration Vox became the first far-right party to win representation in Spain's parliament since the restoration of democracy in 1977.
Franco, a conservative general, and Primo de Rivera, a flamboyant playboy, had little love for each other, according to Franco's biographer Paul Preston.
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