Álava has stripped dictator Franco and General Mola of the title 'Father of the Province' with the support of all groups except Vox
The General Meetings approved this morning the abolition of the honorary appointments granted by the Provincial Council of Álava to the dictator Francisco Franco and the military coup d'état Emilio Mola in 1936, in compliance with the Law on Historical and Democratic Memory of the Basque Country.
The General Meetings of Álava this morning revoked the appointments of "father of the province "granted in 1936 to the dictator Francisco Franco and the military coup d'état Emilio Mola .
The decision, which has been supported by all groups except Vox, falls within the framework of the development of the Act on Historical and Democratic Memory of the Basque Country, which obliges public institutions to remove any symbol or distinction involving the exaltation of the coup d'état, the Civil War or the Franco dictatorship.
This measure puts an end to the procedure initiated by the Provincial Council of Álava last September, when the Deputy General, Ramiro Gonzalez, announced the organization's intention to review all the honours and appointments granted during Francoism in order to eliminate those that do not conform to democratic values.
The title "Father of the Province" was given to Franco and Mola in 1936 , shortly after the outbreak of the civil war, as an expression of support for the military coup. Eight decades later, Álava hasdeclared these appointments incompatible with the democratic values and has officially annulled them.
The Provincial Council has also announced that it will continue to review all the nominations, medals and honours of the Franco era, in order to remove those that do not conform to current democratic laws and principles .
With this measure, Álava continues along the same lines as the rest of the Basque Historical Territories, within the institutional process of recovering the historical memory and removing the vestiges that extol the Franco dictatorship.
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