The 'Commander Franco' flag of the Legion is renamed the 'Spain Flag' by the Law of Memory

MADRID, 17 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ministry of Defense has changed the name of the 'Commander Franco Flag' of the Legion to the 'Spain Flag', in application of the Democratic Memory Law approved last October by the Cortes Generales.

This is stated in a resolution signed this Monday by the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, and published this Tuesday in the Official Defense Gazette (BOD), to which Europa Press has had access.

In it, Defense alludes to article 35 of the new Memory Law, which affects "symbols and elements contrary to democratic memory." Specifically, it points out as elements contrary to democratic memory those references "to the military uprising and the dictatorship, to its leaders, participants in the repressive system or to the organizations that supported the dictatorship and the civil or military units of collaboration between the Franco regime and the axis powers during World War II".

As decided by the Ministry, this affects the hitherto called 'Franco Commander Flag' of the Third 'Great Captain' of the Legion, of the General Command of Melilla, which from now on will be renamed 'Spain Flag'.

After the approval of the Memory Law, Defense created a new body for "the study, coordination and planning" of the actions derived from it and chaired by the Undersecretary of the Ministry, Adoración Mateos.

Its function, according to its creation decree, is to coordinate and plan all the legal implications that the Memory Law has in the field of the Ministry of Defense, both in the field of heritage and access and consultation of the documentation of its archives. , as well as the processing of all administrative procedures derived from the new legislation and collaboration with other administrations.