How Francisco Franco still looms large in Spanish politics

Spanish far-right wing party Vox supporters unfold a 1000 sq.m. and 165 kg Spanish flag on El Sardinero beach in Santander on November 2, 2019 ahead of the November 10 general election. Picture: ANDER GILLENEA / AFP

This young democracy went from a Roman Catholic dictatorship to embracing gay marriage in just a generation and its largely agricultural economy became a European powerhouse that plunged in and out of a global financial crisis. For many Socialists, the exhumation of the dictator is the signature achievement of acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who’s been struggling for more than a year to exert control over a fragmented legislature.

Vox leader Santiago Abascal accuses Sanchez of looking for “an excuse to rewrite history” and pandering to the Catalan separatists out of political necessity. Sanchez was able to oust his centre-right rival with a brief alliance with the Catalan separatists. Now he’s uncomfortably dependent on them. When violence flared after their leaders were convicted for sedition, he promised a firm reaction but didn’t follow through.

It made short-term political sense but had the effect of hollowing out the Spanish state. And the demands from the separatists just kept growing. The slow, steady slide towards fundamentalism has left the country basically ungovernable.

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