The Spanish government gave an ultimatum to Franco's family for the reburial of his corpse

"There are 15 days of time for the family to decide where to locate the remains of the dictator's skeleton"said the Minister of Justice, Dolores Delgado

If the descendants of Franco, who ruled Spain from an iron fist from 1939 until his death in 1975, they do not agree on a place or do not respond to the ultimatum, the government will choose the site to smoke it again, he said.

The socialist government of Pedro Sánchez, which ends its last weeks after the convocation of these elections of Friday of April 28, proceeded to the exhumation by Franco of the monumental mausoleum where it rests, in the Valley of the dead, about 50 km northwest of Madrid, one of his priorities since taking office in June.

But the process was delayed by obstacles, mainly due to the frontal opposition of the seven grandchildren of the Galician dictator, winner of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

Their descendants want that when the remains of the dictator leave the mausoleum, they end up in the The Cathedral of Almudena, in the center of Madrid, where Franco's daughter is buried in a private crypt.

But this option is rejected by the Spanish Government, who wants to smoke it in a more discreet place, so as not to enjoy a "tomb of state" where his nostalgic people will decorate him with flowers. He asked the family to look for an alternative place.

The Francisco Franco National Foundation, defending the memory and politics of the "caudillo", announced Friday afternoon in a statement The exhumation will be the subject of an appeal to the Supreme Court, which could leave it in abeyance.

The foundation explained that it exercised its right of exhumation before "the accumulation of illegalities and arbitrariness" of the socialist government, which, according to it, was intended "a new pantomime for purposes elections and not in the general interest the Spanish ".