Madrid (CNN) It is an issue that has divided Spanish opinion for decades, but the remains of fascist dictator Gen. Francisco Franco will be exhumed and relocated on Thursday, Spain's government said Monday. Franco was buried in a grand mausoleum called the Valley of the Fallen, northwest of Madrid, soon after his death in 1975. In September, Spain's Supreme Court ruled that the dictator could be exhumed from the mausoleum. His remains will be relocated to the Mingorrubio state cemetery in El Pardo, 12 miles north of Madrid, where his wife is buried. The exhumation was one of acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's key policy pledges when he came into power last year and was made a royal decree in August 2018 by the incumbent Socialist Party.

Source: CNN October 21, 2019 11:37 UTC