he’s clearly very very upset that the government have carried out the wishes of a huge majority of the population and doesn’t think that is how democracy should work. If he is so against it, he can vote in a government next time who stand on a mandate to move his remains back.....
Franco's tomb desecrated for political aggrandisement.
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he’s clearly very very upset that the government have carried out the wishes of a huge majority of the population and doesn’t think that is how democracy should work. If he is so against it, he can vote in a government next time who stand on a mandate to move his remains back.....
Please tell me how I get a vote in a Spanish election...? Are you an expert on vote rigging or something? 
Sad to see that General Francisco Franco's remains have been moved from his beautiful mausoleum to the unremarkable El Pardo city cemetery to appease the left leaning government. Visiting The Valley of the Fallen will not be the same. Many fought valiantly against the move, but to no availIt's bad enough ingrate students demanding the removal of their benefactors statues and memorabilia from universities, whilst still enjoying their architectural and financial legacies, without this sort of nonsense in Spain.
What on Earth is this...
He was a murderous dictator. Screw his grave.
Perhaps it makes for interesting conversation with his father over dinner.
Wrong thread, you are probably thinking of the Hitler / Nazi one where someone wanted to learn more to have an in depth conversation with his father on this subject. My father is dead, so seances aside, conversation is extremely limited these days, save in my prayers!
One man's dictator is sometimes another man's savior. Calm yourself
From 2006, in The Guardian:
As Spain marked the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the its bloody civil war, El Mundo newspaper today published (in Spanish) a survey which found that a third of the population still believe General Franco was right to overthrow the Republican government. During the resulting three-year campaign between supporters of the socialist government and Franco's rightwing nationalist army more than 500,000 people are thought to have been killed.
Seventy years after the coup, the memory of those events continues to divide Spanish public opinion. Critical opinion of the uprising is greater among younger people than the elderly where one in four prefer not to state any opinion.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2006/jul/18/post181
Given one in four declined an opinion one might assume his fans were considerably more than a third of the population?
You can’t assume that at all. Yes, it’s quite sad that one third believe he was right to overthrow the government. That doesn’t 100% mean though they support what he did and how many people he killed.
but like I said earlier, people, if they are a majority, are quite within their rights to vote in a government standing on a mandate of moving his remains back. But luckily that will never happen as there only a minority of his supporters.
but like I said earlier, people, if they are a majority, are quite within their rights to vote in a government standing on a mandate of moving his remains back. But luckily that will never happen as there only a minority of his supporters.