Six judges in Spain unanimously rejected an appeal by Franco's relatives against the government's plan to move the body to a cemetery on the capital's outskirts.
Leftist parties and families of many Spanish Civil War victims have wanted Franco, who died in 1975, to be removed from the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum, a major tourist attraction. Others have argued it would open old wounds.Some 34,000 people from both sides in the 1936-39 civil war are also buried there, most of them never identified.
The ruling came as Spain's parliament was dissolved and elections officially set for Nov. 10; opposition parties have accused the Socialists of planning to use the exhumation for electoral purposes. "The government is prohibiting a family from burying where they deem convenient," Utrera told Spanish public broadcaster TVE.Caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez celebrated the decision in a tweet:"The determination to make up for the suffering of the victims of Francoism has always guided the government's action," he wrote.
Bonifacio Sanchez, spokesman for Spain's Association of Historical Memory, which has long fought for the body's removal, said he welcomed the decision but opposed the government plan to take it to the El Pardo cemetery outside Madrid.
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