Spain to get rid of the last monument to General Franco.

The only remaining monument in Spain, the former governor of the country of Francisco Franco to be dismantled within 15 days. The bronze statue of the general mounted on a street in the north African enclave of Melilla will be sent to the warehouse. Later it is planned to put in a military museum, said The Times.
Decision Melilla authorities based on the 2007 "Law on Historical Memory," which requires regional authorities to remove all monuments of the former dictator and his associates, to remove them on the memorial plaques, and rename them the names of these streets and squares. The last monument to Franco, established in the European part of Spain, was dismantled in the city of Santander in 2008.
Earlier, the government refused to remove a monument of Melilla, on the grounds that it was established in memory of the French military victories in the war in North Africa long before in 1939 he became head of the country. The bronze statue is in a street in the city after the death of the dictator in 1975.
The publication notes that despite the passage of a law in Spain is still a large number of streets and other facilities whose names are associated with the names of the leaders of the dictatorship, and especially with the name Franco.
Vice-President of the Foundation for the Francisco Franco Felix Morales told reporters that his organization is fighting for the restoration of dismantled in 2005, the statue in Madrid, where the dictator was depicted on horseback. Earlier, the Supreme Court recognized that the monument was removed in violation of lawful procedure, but felt that it should not be restored.
One of the most acute problems faced by the Spanish Government in the implementation of the law - the decision Franco fates mausoleum, built in the Valley of the fallen. In one project, it will turn into a museum, according to other plans - in the Education Center.