Spain to publish list of Franco-era symbols targeted for removal | International

MADRID, Oct 22, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Spain's leftist government said Wednesday itwill publish a list of symbols of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship tobe removed from public spaces, 50 years after his death. Franco's legacy remains a sensitive topic after he overthrew a democraticrepublic in a brutal civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of livesand ruled with an iron fist from 1939 until his death in November 1975. Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told parliament that before the end ofNovember, his government will publish "a complete list of Francoist symbolsand elements, so they can finally be removed from our country and from ourstreets". From imposing neoclassical arches to quiet plazas named after regimeloyalists, remnants of Franco's nearly four-decade rule are...