The Government shows "absolute respect" for the family of Primo de Rivera to exhume the body of the Valley of the Fallen

MADRID, 11 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Government has shown "absolute respect" for the decision of the family of José Antonio Primo de Rivera to exhume the body from the Valley of the Fallen. This was stated by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Government Spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, during the press conference after the Council of Ministers after learning of the family's decision that was made public last night.

The family of the founder of the Falange has requested the abbot of the Valley of the Fallen and the General Directorate of Public Health of the Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid, to exhume the remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, before the Valley become a civil cemetery with the new Democratic Memory Law --which was definitively approved in the Senate last week--.

It has been made public by the Duke of Primo de Rivera, Fernando Primo de Rivera, representative of the family, who has also explained that he has already requested the corresponding licenses from the City Council of San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

Once the requested authorization has been obtained, the remains will be deposited in the place that the family has decided, thus fulfilling the will expressed in his will by José Antonio Primo de Rivera, in whose clause he establishes: "I wish to be buried according to the rite of the Catholic religion , Apostolic, Roman, which I profess, on blessed land and under the protection of the Holy Cross," the statement said.

The family alleges that, with this decision, "there is no place" for the processing of the procedure provided for in the Second Additional Provision of the Memory Law, for which the exhumation process "must remain and will remain within strict family privacy, without it being able to become a public exhibition prone to confrontations of any kind between Spaniards," he adds.