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MADRID — Spain 's government has begun closing down the Francisco Franco foundation, a non-profit organization set up by sympathizers of the late dictator, Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun said on Thursday.The "democratic memory" law approved in 2022 by Spain 's Socialist government prohibits any organization that is seen to glorify or promote the 1939-1975 Franco regime.
"This is something we've owed for quite some time to the victims' associations, who were asking us to begin this procedure," Urtasun said in an interview on La Sexta television.The foundation did not immediately reply to a request for comment. Its president, Juan Chicharro Ortega, told Reuters in 2020 that a ban would be a violation of the constitution.The foundation was created in 1976 to promote the study of Franco's life and achievements, according to its website.
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