Pedro Sánchez announces that the transfer of other remains of the Valley of the Fallen will be addressed: "Spain is the result of forgiveness but not forgetting"

• Full text: Homily read in the inhumation of Francisco Franco
• The last part: Francisco Franco leaves the Valley of the Fallen
• The parties. "The past, past is", "did not touch", "indifference", "an election show", so the parties have reacted to exhumation

The socialist government in office, despite having limited its intervention in today's acts of exhumation and reinhumation of the dictator Francisco Franco to the forced presence of the Minister of Justice, Dolores Delgado, as notary major of the kingdom, has finally wanted to occupy his own space. The chief executive, Pedro Sánchez, has appeared by surprise in La Moncloa to, at the same time that the news programs begin, to give an institutional statement about the transfer of the remains of Franco from the Valley of the Fallen to the cemetery of El Brown-Mingorubium.

The president has assured that there has been "one more step in reconciliation" and "our democracy is prestige not only before our eyes but to those of the world" in response to the recommendation that Franco not rest in the same place as his victims, carried out by the United Nations. "Today Spain complies with itself," he said, and "ends the moral affront that meant the exaltation of a dictator in a public space."

According to Sánchez, "the public tribute rather than anachronism and an anomaly was an offense to our own democracy." "Putting an end to it was a

Duty for generations that we did not grow under the trauma of civil war and Francoism. "Because, he pointed out," today's Spain is the fruit of forgiveness, but cannot be the product of oblivion. "

The chief executive recalled that in the Valley of the Fallen there are still buried "34,000 compatriots, victims of the Civil War", a third of them remain unidentified and many were transferred there without the consent and even ignorance of their families. This is "an infamy that must be repaired sooner rather than later", he said, with the "thousands of graves scattered throughout our geography."

Sánchez confirms that his proposal does not end only with the departure of Franco from the Cuelgamuros "Today's Spain has a debt with these families. Today's Spain has a

debt, also, of the Spaniards who fought on the battlefields of World War II, fighting fascism in Europe. It is also indebted to those who were forced into the path of exile just 80 years ago, in the year 2019 "

Aware of the accusations of electoralism made by both PP and Citizens as well as United We can have argued that "my Government publicly announced that it would do so at the same time that this was possible." "And this is the moment. And so it has been done. Not a day before or a day later," he added.

Now, he concluded, when the Valley of the Fallen opens its doors again, those who access will find a different place. "Because today those who lie are already all victims, only victims."

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• Franco exhumation
• Francisco Franco Bahamonde
• Pedro Sanchez
• PSOE
• Dolores Delgado
• Valley of the Fallen

Historical memoryUnidas We can accuse the PSOE of "electoralist" for the exhumation of Franco

Exhumation The extreme government alerts and insulates the Franco to avoid tributes

Politics The Government will exhume Francisco Franco before October 25, in full electoral campaign