Francisco Franco National Foundation
Spanish foundation dedicated to Francisco Franco
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The Francisco Franco National Foundation[1][2][3] (Spanish: Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco; FNFF)[4] is a foundation created in 1976 devoted to promoting the legacy of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.[5][6] The only child of Franco, Carmen Franco (1926–2017) led the organisation and later became its honorary president.[7][8]
Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco | |
Sticker with the logo of the Francisco Franco National Foundation | |
| Abbreviation | FNFF |
|---|---|
| Named after | Francisco Franco |
| Formation | 1976 |
| Headquarters | Madrid, Spain |
Region served | Spain |
| Leader | Juan Chicharro Ortega |
Honorary President | Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou |
| Website | www |
In 2017, 200,000 people signed a petition calling on the Spanish government to ban the organisation.[8]
In 2018, after new Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez promised that Franco's remains would be removed from the Valley of the Fallen, the Foundation collected a petition with 24,000 signatures to oppose the proposal.[9] While relatively marginal in Spanish political culture, the FNFF (and members of the Franco family) gained enormous public visibility in connection with the dictator's exhumation.[10]
In 2024, the Spanish Ministry of Culture started proceedings to outlaw the foundation under the 2022 Democratic Memory Law.[11]
