The Spanish government is set to begin exhuming 128 Civil War and dictatorship-era dead from the Valley of Cuelgamuros.
This comes after relatives of the deceased filed a complaint last Thursday asking that a 2016 sentence requiring this exhumation be carried out.
Earlier this year, the body of dictator Francisco Franco, as well as Falange founder Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, was also moved out of the mausoleum complex, in conformity to Spain’s ‘Democratic History’ law.
In terms of its play in the media, this move is part of a long-term effort to polarize society according to Civil War allegiances in order to garner electoral support for the socialist party (PSOE).
Spain will hold its general elections at the end of July.
