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Spanish authorities have exhumed the body of fascist leader Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera from a mountainside mausoleum near Madrid and moved his remains to a city cemetery. This marks the fourth exhumation and fifth burial for the founder of the Falange party. The move reflects the efforts by Spain's current government to come to terms with the country's fascist movements and Francisco Franco's dictatorship.
The remains of fascist leader José Antonio Primo de Rivera were exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen in Madrid, as part of Spain's Democratic Memory Law. The law aims to give justice to the victims of the Spanish civil war and its long dictatorship. However, families of other victims are still struggling to remove their loved ones from the same building due to legal hurdles and struggles to identify unmarked graves. The exhumation of Primo de Rivera was requested by his family and he was reburied at a Madrid cemetery.
The remains of fascist leader Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera were exhumed from a mountainside mausoleum and reburied in a city cemetery in a private family ceremony, as part of Spain's effort to prevent the glorification of its totalitarian past. The move has angered the far-right movement, which sees Primo de Rivera and General Franco as nationalist heroes. Spain's socialist government plans to convert the site into a lasting tribute to the 500,000 people killed during the civil war. The exhumation is part of Spain's process of establishing its "democratic memory."