The City Council of San Lorenzo de El Escorial has authorized the planning license to proceed with the exhumation of José Antonio Primo de Rivera del Valle de los Caídos on the request of his descendants.
The concept is to maneuver the stays to a different place earlier than Cuelgamuros turns into a civil cemetery with the brand new Democratic Memory Law. The minutes of the Local Government Board set up the situations below which the authorization is topic.
It was in January when the Foundation of the Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos submitted an utility for the granting of permission to take away the tombstone and alternative of the flooring within the Basilica for the exhumation of the chief of the Falange.
According to the documentation, the technical report considers that “the meant motion is a restoration work, which is admitted throughout the actions that may be carried out on every of the weather included within the catalogue.”
Specifically, “aimed toward restoring the unique situations of the listed component within the space wherein the intervention is proposed, by changing the present granite slab with marble slabs.”
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Among the overall situations, it seems that the works should start inside a interval of 1 12 months and have to be accomplished inside three years. In addition, solely a single extension could also be granted for a brand new time period not than the one initially agreed.
Always prior categorical request made earlier than the completion of the deadlines for the beginning and completion of the works, offered that the license is in accordance with the city planning in drive on the time of its granting.
Exhumation in “strict household privateness”
The household of Primo de Rivera requested in October the abbot of the Valley of the Fallen and the General Directorate of Public Health of the Health Department of the Community of Madrid to exhume the stays. The Duke of Primo de Rivera, Fernando Primo de Rivera, consultant of the household, requested the corresponding licenses.
With the choice, they clarify, “there isn’t a place” for the processing of the process offered for within the second Additional Provision of the Memory Law. Therefore, the exhumation course of “should stay and can stay inside strict household privateness.”
“Without it having the ability to turn into a public exhibition, vulnerable to confrontations of any sort between Spaniards,” the kin make clear. As they categorical, “José Antonio will proceed to keep up the pre-eminent place that corresponds to him within the reminiscence of many Spaniards.”
“He won’t be able to be subjected to additional humiliation,” they add on this fourth switch since he handed away. “His new burial of him can be the fifth of what’s wrongly known as his everlasting relaxation,” they conclude in his assertion.