[1][2] After the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, the Spanish transition to democracy saw the birth of the Pact of Forgetting, where both leftist and rightist parties of Spain decided to avoid confronting directly the legacy of Francoism.
"[3] On 18 June 2018, the government of Pedro Sánchez announced its intention to remove Franco's remains from the Valle de los Caídos, the monument to the Civil War on the outskirts of Madrid.
[4] On 24 August 2018, Sánchez's cabinet approved a decree that modifies two aspects of the 2007 Historical Memory Law to allow the exhumation of Franco's remains from the Valle de los Caídos.
[8][9] The bill includes a provision to ensure secondary school, Spanish Baccalaureate, and vocational training students are taught about the dictatorship.
The law also redefines the Valley of the Fallen monument as a national cemetery for people killed on both sides of the civil war, with no remains to be placed in particular prominence.
"[17] PSOE politician and Secretary-General of the Office of the Prime Minister of Spain Félix Bolaños argued that it was "the first law to repudiate the coup of 1936" and that "No democratic force should have any problems paying tribute to the victims of a dictatorship."