On January 8, at the beginning of a month and a year marked by the judicial calendar that surrounds the Executive on various fronts, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, gave the starting signal in Madrid, at the Reina Sofía Museum, to … the celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, who died in his bed on November 20, 1975. It is the first of a hundred events that are planned for 2025 to celebrate ‘Spain in freedom’, they proclaim in the Moncloa Palace, despite the fact that the first democratic elections were not held until 1977 and that the Constitution was not approved by the Spanish people in a referendum until December 6, 1978.
The importance that the Government wants to give to this event, with a grand staging, however clashes with the little interest it has aroused in Spanish society, according to the data derived from the GAD3 barometer for ABC, from the This Saturday this newspaper publishes the first installment. The survey was carried out between January 16 and 23, just a few days after the inauguration of the commemorations, and there is one piece of information that ruins Sánchez’s intentions: only fourteen percent of those surveyed respond that they are in favor of the events organized by the Council of Ministers fifty years after Franco’s death.
Sánchez, at his inauguration, called for establishing a dividing wall between Spaniards to resist, he says, the advance of the extreme right. An ideological space in which he of course places Vox, but towards which according to him the PP is moving. You are either with me or against me. On the other side of that border, according to GAD3 data, fifty percent of those surveyed reject the hundred events that the Government will carry out throughout this year – with their consequent economic expenditure – to mark the fifty years without the military, after a long dictatorship that died with him and after a transition to exemplary democracy which, by the way, many voices deny from Sumar, the conglomerate of left-wing parties to which Sánchez opened the door in the Council of Ministers this year. legislature replacing Can.
The worst news for Sánchez is not that half of the population is against these splendors, something that perhaps he himself expected, but the enormous indifference that it also arouses among his followers and his allies. If fourteen percent of Spaniards say they are in favor of these acts and fifty percent are against, a not inconsiderable thirty percent respond with indifference when asked this question: “Are you for or against the events organized by the Government for the fifty years since Franco’s death?
Not even the socialists
Not even among the voters of his political party, the PSOE, does this issue arouse great enthusiasm, which the opposition despises as a “smokescreen” to cover, they say, the cases of corruption around him, both in his Executive and in his family environment – his wife, Begoña Gómez, and his brother, David Sánchez, are accused –, and his parliamentary precariousness, confirmed this week with the repeal of two of the three royal decree laws that the Government led to validate to Congress.
Specifically, only twenty-seven percent of socialist voters say they are in favor of these acts, being surpassed by the percentage of PSOE voters on July 23, 2023, both who are against, 35 percent, and who are against. They are indifferent, 34 percent. That is, Sánchez’s agenda, in which he intends to involve the entire Spanish society, including the Royal House – it is planned that King Felipe VI will participate in the tributes to the role of the monarchy in the Transition and in some others to the exiles. due to the Civil War and Francoism – he does not even make those who trusted him in the last elections feel challenged.
Events organized by the Government
50 years since Franco’s death
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GAD3 Survey / January 2025
Events organized by the Government for the 50 years
of Franco’s death
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Sumar’s voters and even more so are those of the nationalist parties (ERC, Junts, Bildu, PNV, Canarian Coalition, BNG and the CUP, the latter being extra-parliamentary). In Yolanda Díaz’s coalition, as in the PSOE, twenty-seven percent are in favor, but only thirty percent are indifferent and 39 percent are against. Among the nationalists and independence supporters, nineteen percent were in favor, twenty-five percent were indifferent, and 47 percent were against.
Of course, the degree of rejection skyrockets in the opposition parties, PP and Vox, and in this case it is surprising that it is the popular ones who are most critical of the pomp and prominence that the Government gives to this fiftieth anniversary. . The multiple commemoration prepared by the Government only convinces two percent of those who supported Alberto Núñez Feijóo on 23-J. Of these, twenty-four percent are indifferent and 71 percent, the highest percentage, are against. Among those who supported Santiago Abascal, nine percent support the actions of the Executive, thirty percent respond with disinterest and 66 percent say they are against.
The elders, critics
If the data is observed by age groups, it also stands out that those who generate the most rejection of these acts are those over 65 years of age, who are precisely those who lived through at least the last part of the Franco regime and who ‘a priori’ There should be more supporters of these large-scale events, because they are the ones who directly suffered from the lack of freedoms. Sánchez’s ‘Spain in freedom’ does not catch on.
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