Francisco Franco National Foundation

The Francisco Franco National Foundation[1][2][3] (Spanish: Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco, FNFF for short[4]) or National Francisco Franco Foundation is a foundation created in 1976[5] which promotes a positive interpretation of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. The only child of Franco, Carmen Franco (1926-2017) led the organisation and later became its honorary president.[6][7]

Francisco Franco National Foundation
Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco
Logo of the Francisco Franco National Foundation
AbbreviationFNFF
Named afterFrancisco Franco
Formation1976 (1976)
LeaderJuan Chicharro Ortega
Websitewww.fnff.es

In 2017 200,000 people signed a petition, calling on the Spanish government to ban the organisation.[7]

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, with its leader, General Juan Chicharro Ortega, calling the site a "monument to reconciliation".[8]

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.
  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 – 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 – via Google Books.
  6. Hancox, Dan (2 July 2015). "Race, God and Family". pp. 15–18 – via London Review of Books.
  7. France-Presse, Agence (23 November 2017). "Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards call for ban on Franco foundation". the Guardian.
  8. 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.


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