The Francoists have reacted to the campaign displayed by the Government to commemorate the 50 years of the death of Francisco Franco. Grouped under the 2025 platform, preferred on February 3, they have launched a manifesto under the head Government with “Spain in freedom”, claim the dictator and counteract what they call “the year of lies against the leader.”
The list of accessions to the manifesto is composed today by a hundred names, a good number of them compound surnames. They include among them four grandchildren (Cristobal, Jaime, María Aránzazu and María de la O) or the children of former Francoist minister José Utrera Molina – one of whom, Luis Felipe, was the lawyer who represented the Franco to try to paralyze his Exit from the Co -gamuros Valley -. José Yusty Bastarreche also signs, the already retired judge who tried to hinder the exhumation of the dictator paralyzing the works license and who had been very critical of the Historical Memory Law.
Antonio Tejero, expelled from the Civil Guard for the 23F coup d’etat, and his son Ramón, who is a priest. They also sign the text Miguel Bernad, the ultra -rightist who leads Clean Manos, the president of the Francisco Franco Foundation, Juan Chicharro, or Blas Piñar Gutiérrez, retired general and son of the founder of Force Nueva. In addition there are retired military officers Ayuso –which is next to the editor Álvaro Romero one of the drivers of the 2025 platform – and journalists such as Eduardo García Serrano, former director of La Gaceta.
The text is loaded with Loas to Franco, to which the signatories say they show themselves “grateful” and celebrate for “winning a lost war on the left, and then raising our nation along a prosperous and prolonged peace as our Earth, ”they say about the 40 years of dictatorship in which a fierce repression sought the extermination of a part of the population and annihilated human rights.
The dictator says the signatories who was “a heroic soldier” who “saved Spain” in 1934 “from an armed socialist revolution” – in reference to the workers’ revolution of Asturias that ended with 1,500 dead -, an “exemplary Christian” that “” saved the church […] of physical extermination ”and the driver of what, continuing with Franco’s terminology, they call“ our liberation crusade to defeat the PSOE again ”.
They attribute to Franco the creation of social security, of the eleven or even make him the architect of the “eradication of anlfabetismo.” They claim that the State Administration was “honest, austere and effective” that “managed to build in Spain the infrastructure” that “placed us at the same level of the most advanced nationals in the world,” they pray overlooking the terrible famine that ravaged the country During the first years of regime and the economic consequences that the autarkic policy that imposed in its first stage had. On the contrary, they say: “We do not forget that Franco took the reins of a Spain in ruins with an enrome poverty and hunger problem.”
The signatories of the manifesto arrive to maintain that the dictator “led to the true reconciliation among the Spaniards” through other things in the construction of the Co -Chamber Valley. And they point out that the State created by Franco “intended to promote peace, prosperity and the common good trying to dispose of the best conditions for each Spaniard to be a decent human being and that, endowed with a soul capable of saving and condemning himself, reached his ultimate end in eternity. ”
Cargn against “the political and media powers that are thrown against Franco” because, they say, “they hate their work because they hate Spain” and, on the other hand, claim the dictator using the regime’s own terminology: “The cleanest sword in Europe. Archinite of the military and spiritual victory of Spain over communism and socialism. A good, Catholic man, who died forgiving and apologizing […] And that he bequeathed, for all Spaniards, prosperity, unity and peace, ”concludes the text.
To the known names that subscribe the text, they are accompanied by several dozens of people, including military retired as Francisco Bendala Ayuso – which is next to the editor Álvaro Romero, one of the drivers of the 2025 platform–. There are also historians, entrepreneurs, “housewives”, lawyers or teachers who end the manifesto with a “Francisco Franco, present!” and “above Spain.”
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