Twelve years ago, Congress passed the Historical Memory Act of 2007, with the president of the Spanish Government, José Luis Zapatero, of the PSOE. This is the law on which this disobedience is based. Since then, Congress passed a non-legislative proposal authorizing the departure of Franco and, finally, the Spanish Government gave its mandate in 2019.

The foundations closest to the family, however, have not taken long to obstruct order in the courts. With all the doors open, on Thursday they will take the dictator from the Valley of the Fallen to the pantheon of Mingorrubio, where his widow, Carmen Polo, is buried.