Spanish Congress votes to remove Franco's body from tomb - ARRIBA ESPAÑA

Spain’s congress has voted in favour of digging up dictator Francisco Franco and removing his remains from the controversial Valley of the Fallen monument.
The non-binding resolution passed on Thursday proposes that the vast basilica topped by a 150 meter high granite cross be transformed into a place of “reflection and reconciliation” rather than a monument to fascism.

The vote was passed after 198 MPs voted in favour of the motion presented by Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE), one voted against and 140 abstained.

The motion, which was debated in the lower house on Tuesday ahead of Thursday’s vote, is purely symbolic and is not legally binding.

The conservative government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, whose Popular Party voted against the resolution, can choose not to pass it into law.

https://www.thelocal.es/20170511/spanish-lawmakers-vote-to-exhume-francisco-franco

 

[vertexwindi]

Then we roll his corpse up into a carpet and throw him off a bridge.

 

[Irwin M. Felcher]

Even the dead cannot know peace from Antifa.

 

[Grog]

Cheers to that one absolute madman who voted against.

 

[Linako 2.0]

Franco dindu nuffin
Fucking commies

 

[Robot Holocaust]

Huh, just found out on the news that this isn't a legally binding law, it's more of an ideological declaration. The government has the right to do absolutely nothing, which is what Rajoy usually does in cases like this. So this might not even happen.

 

[Darndirty]

Isn't franco the father in law of the current king?

 

[Robot Holocaust]

Nope. Franco hastily appointed Juan Carlos, Felipe's father, as king when the original successor was killed by a car bomb.

 

[CWCchange]

I wonder how many people outside Spain actually knew about Franco before this became news, like all the libtard lawyers outside the South which demanded the removal of Confederate monuments.

 

[friedshrimp]

I wonder how many people outside Spain actually knew about Franco before this became news, like all the libtard lawyers outside the South which demanded the removal of Confederate monuments.

Hmm I'm guessing Twitter now is filled with smug virtue-signalers about this.

 

[Autistic-No-Yari]

Is it weird that I hope this same thing happens to CWC?

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

 

[Robot Holocaust]

Is it weird that I hope this same thing happens to CWC?

It'd make a lot more sense, at least.

See, what pisses me off about this is that this is going to waste a huge amount of money on something a lot of people really don't care about. It also could start a dangerous precedent; who's to say that they won't try to remove El Cid's statues or get rid of the Cristianos y Moros festival because it triggers Muslims?

 

[Marvin]

It'd make a lot more sense, at least.

See, what pisses me off about this is that this is going to waste a huge amount of money on something a lot of people really don't care about. It also could start a dangerous precedent; who's to say that they won't try to remove El Cid's statues or get rid of the Cristianos y Moros festival because it triggers Muslims?

I don't think it sets much of a precedent.

Like there's a difference between a dictator who lived during my parent's lifetimes and statues of people several hundred years old.

 

[Robot Holocaust]

Yeah, after thinking about it, you're right about that. I probably was just overreacting to the news.

 

[Ravelord]

Oh hey, a decent new for once. I hope they don't build a franquism victims monument instead but a civil war memorial for BOTH sides. That might be some sort of "reconciliation".

Also, for non-Spanish. The Valley was built by prisioners of the regime/war.

 

[Lorento]

They might dig up Franco's body, but he'll have the last laugh. Above all else, its Franco's policies towards the other peoples of Spain that will cause the country to break up within our lifetimes.

 

[Ruin]

I don't know, I'm all for bringing dictators and human rights violators to justice while they're alive but I sort of feel that once you die people should leave you the fuck alone. Digging up a corpse just to fuck with it seems especially pathetic even by virtue signaling standards.

 

[Darndirty]

I don't know, I'm all for bringing dictators and human rights violators to justice while they're alive but I sort of feel that once you die people should leave you the fuck alone. Digging up a corpse just to fuck with it seems especially pathetic even by virtue signaling standards.

Please, go in any museum and see tons of bodies dug up and put on display for people. If Hitler was buried in your backyard you'd dig that motherfucker up too.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

who is this dead person and why i should/shouldnt care?