Sanchez calls for defending democracy while the PP equates Francoism with "sanchism."
The President of the Spanish Government has recalled on social media the 50th anniversary of Franco's death.
Stock image of a plenary session of the Spanish Congress. Photo: EFE
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called on Thursday to defend democracy on the 50th anniversary of the death of Francisco Franco, while the PP hinted that the closest thing to Francoism is "sanchism."
Sánchez has announced the anniversary through a video broadcast on social media in which he has stressed that they are celebrating the beginning of the transformation that made Spain the current "full and prosperous democracy."
"We celebrate having an opinion, thinking, voting and whatever one wants," added the Chief Executive.
Meanwhile, in the PP, Senate spokeswoman Alicia Garcia has said that "the closest thing to Francoism is sanchism."
The president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has said that "democracy is to look forward together" and has said that "the first thing is to condemn the threshold of the Civil War, which is to build a wall between Spaniards."
Controversial has been the analysis made of this 50th anniversary by the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, who first pointed out that Francoism had "positive and negative" aspects and then retracted, calling it "the black age of our people, which deserves to be overcome and looked forward, condemning what it was."
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