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The Supreme Ship today in full pre-campaign the probable exhumation of Francisco Franco with the doubt put in the reinhumation of the remains either in the cemetery of El Pardo-Mingorrubio, as the Government wants, or in the crypt of the Almudena cathedral, which It is the desire of the family.

The Fourth Section of the Administrative Litigation Chamber meets from 10 am for the deliberation and ruling of the dictator's grandchildren against the agreement of the Council of Ministers of March 15 that set for exhumation on June 10 , paralyzed by the Chamber until there was a sentence.

And while they resolve, various organizations that support the #NiValleNiAlmudena campaign have called a rally before the Supreme, waiting to hear the ruling.

There is a circumstance that the decision on one of the great promises of the Pedro Sánchez legislature coincides on the same day with the dissolution of the Cortes and the decree calling for elections on November 10.

Legal sources consulted by Efe explain that the court will first evaluate the exhumation, an issue that generates little doubt among the magistrates and that the Chamber will foreseeably endorse.

Another thing is the fate of the dictator's mortal remains, given that there are no reinhumation precedents that illustrate the Chamber and, therefore, face a legal debate that seems "long and very complex . " Moreover, the sources do not rule out that the deliberations go to Wednesday if they have no agreement.

The Executive wants the remains to be reinhumed in the cemetery of El Pardo-Mingorrubio and refers to security reasons to oppose the desire of the dictator's grandchildren to do so in the crypt of the Almudena cathedral, where his daughter, Carmen Franco, bought in 1987 a burial in perpetuity with space for several bodies.

However, the exhumation of Franco faces a final judicial obstacle in the figure of the holder of the Court of Administrative Litigation Number 3 of Madrid, José Yusty Basterreche, who provisionally suspended the license of works of the City of San Lorenzo de El Escorial to lift the slab of Francisco Franco's grave because he considers that it could endanger the operators.

According to the sources, it is not clear the impact that the decision of the Supreme may have on this procedure, although other sources explain to Efe that, a hypothetical ruling in favor of exhumation does not condition at all the future of Yusty's case, which responds to A concrete technical aspect.

Of course, the magistrates will not pronounce on the resources of the Benedictine community of the Valley, the Francisco Franco Foundation and the Association for the Defense of the Valley of the Fallen, which they will leave for later and whose outcome will be marked by what happens on Tuesday .

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