Prominent fascist’s remains to be removed from Spain’s Valley of the Fallen

Family of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera act before new legislation designed to honour civil war and dictatorship victims takes effect

The family of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Spain's fascist Falange party, will exhume his remains from the Valley of the Fallen outside Madrid before they are removed under new legislation designed to honour the victims of the civil war and the Franco dictatorship.

Primo de Rivera, who was executed in prison in November 1936, was eventually laid to rest in the valley's basilica in 1959. The remains of the basilica's most infamous occupant, Gen Francisco Franco, were removed almost three years ago to end what Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, called the moral insult that the public glorification of a dictator constitutes".