Francisco Franco National Foundation

The Francisco Franco National Foundation[1][2][3] (Spanish: Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco; FNFF)[4] is a foundation created in 1976 devoted to promoting the legacy of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.[5][6] The only child of Franco, Carmen Franco (1926–2017) led the organisation and later became its honorary president.[7][8]

Francisco Franco National Foundation
Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco
AbbreviationFNFF
Named afterFrancisco Franco
Formation1976 (1976)
LeaderJuan Chicharro Ortega
Honorary President
Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou
Websitewww.fnff.es

In 2017 200,000 people signed a petition, calling on the Spanish government to ban the organisation.[8]

In 2018, after new Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez promised that Franco's remains would be removed from the Valley of the Fallen, the Foundation collected a petition with 24,000 signatures to oppose the proposal.[9] While relatively marginal in Spanish political culture, the FNFF (and members of the Franco family) gained enormous public visibility in connection with the dictator's exhumation.[10]

See also

References

  1. "Madrid tries to tear down a dictator's memory", Deutsche Welle
  2. Basilio, Miriam M. (2013). Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War. ISBN 9781351537421.
  3. Jiménez Gálvez, J.; Valdés Aragonés, Isabel (2015-11-20). "What is left of Franco's legacy?". El País.
  4. Howells, Richard; Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu; Schachter, Judith (10 October 2012). Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230353978 via Google Books.
  5. Aguilar, Paloma; Payne, Leigh A. (11 October 2016). Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past: Perpetrators' Confessions and Victim Exhumations. Springer. ISBN 9781137562296 via Google Books.
  6. Ferrándiz 2021, pp. 12, 24.
  7. Hancox, Dan (2 July 2015). "Race, God and Family". London Review of Books. 37 (13): 15–18.
  8. "Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards call for ban on Franco foundation". the Guardian. Agence France-Presse. 23 November 2017.
  9. Madrid, Graham Keeley (2018-06-20). "New Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez vows to move Franco's remains". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
  10. Ferrándiz 2021, p. 24.
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