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

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]

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. 1 2 "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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