Francisco Franco National Foundation

Francisco Franco National Foundation

Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco
Sticker with the logo of the Francisco Franco National Foundation
Abbreviation	FNFF
Named after	Francisco Franco
Formation	1976; 48 years ago (1976)
Region	Spain
Leader	Juan Chicharro Ortega
Honorary President	Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou
Website	www.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]

In 2024, the Spanish Ministry of Culture started proceedings to outlaw the foundation under the 2022 Democratic Memory Law.^[11]

See also

• Francoism
• Pazo de Meirás

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.^{[permanent dead link]}
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.
11. Jones, Sam (20 June 2024). "Spanish government takes legal action to shut down Franco foundation". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 June 2024.

Bibliography

• Ferrándiz, Francisco (2021). "Francisco Franco Is Back: The Contested Reemergence of a Fascist Moral Exemplar". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 64. Cambridge University Press: 1–30. doi:10.1017/S001041752100044X. hdl:10261/275849.

External links

• Francisco Franco National Foundation website