- In the early hours of the morning work began on the exhumation of the remains of the Franco general and six other people and it will take a whole day to complete the operation. The work is being carried out under the direction of the Contentious Doctor Paco Etxeberria.
In September, the Pamplona City Council announced that it would remove José Sanjurjo and Emilio Mola, the general coup plotters of the 1936 War, from the crypt of the Monument to the Fallen, giving way to the memory law approved by the Parliament of Navarre in 2013. The remains of Emilio Mola were extracted in privacy on October 24, at the request of his family.
The decision gave rise to the great political and media right-wing of Navarre and the protest of the Archbishop of Pamplona. The latter also announced that it would file a complaint, but has finally reached an agreement with the City Council of Pamplona to carry out the exhumations in privacy and without the presence of the media. The consent of the relatives of those buried there will be required in order to be able to attend the exhumation work.
Since the forces of change began to command the Government of Navarre and the City of Pamplona, several measures have been taken to comply with the Provincial Law of Historical Memory. Last year, among other things, the square where the Monument to the Fallen is located, formerly called Conde de Rodezno and now Plaza de la Libertad, changed its name.
The coat of arms of Navarre with Francoist laurel has also recently been removed from the Navarre Provincial Palace. The Government of Navarre also created in February of this year a working committee that will guide the course of historical memory, made up of members of the government and various associations that work on historical memory.