Spain's Foreign Minister to appeal against court order to rehang portrait of Franco ally
The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Manuel Albares is to appeal against a judge’s order to rehang a portrait of Franco era politician General Francisco Gómez-Jordana y Sousa in his ministry. The court’s decision is a challenge to the controversial 2022 Democratic Memory law, championed by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, that provides the legal backing for a raft of anti-Franco initiatives, including the removal of Francoist symbols. The objection to the portrait’s removal was led by the general’s grandson lawyer Íñigo Gómez-Jordana. Finding in his favour, the court determined that prope...