Three members of the twelve-person commission gave a joint dissenting opinion opposing the recommendations, claiming such action would only further "divide and stress Spanish society.
[4] On 20 November, nine days before the issuance of the report and on the 36th anniversary of the death of Franco, the conservative Popular Party (PP) won the 2011 General Election with absolute majorities in both Spain's lower house, the Congress of Deputies, and the Senate.
Together with the motion to remove the remains of Franco, the PP majority also voted down an amendment by the PSOE to create a parliamentary committee to seek consensus for the implementation of the recommendations of the Expert Commission.
[12] On 5 August 2013, the PP government, in a letter to PSOE deputy and former minister Ramón Jauregui, reaffirmed its position that the recommendations of the Expert Commission would not be carried out since doing so was absent.
She further questioned the urgency of the legislation then presently introduced before Parliament calling for the removal of the remains of Franco since, during the entire seven-year term of the Zapatero government, no attempt was made to change the Valley.
[18] On 17 December 2014, PP and Asturias Forum (FAC) members of the Committee for Culture of the Congress of Deputies together voted down a proposed law put forward by the PSOE to "redefine" the Valley to reflect a "culture of co-existence" and an amendment of the United Left to exhume the remains of Franco and Primo de Rivera, identify the remains of all Civil War victims buried in the basilica mausoleum, and address the claims of descendants whose ancestors were buried there without family consent.
During parliamentary debate for the proposal of the PSOE, PP deputy Rocío López argued "let the dead rest in peace" and the Valley is a church and cemetery conceived as a peaceful place "without political significance" for the meeting and reconciliation of both sides of the Civil War that should not be changed or modified, while in support of the proposal, PSOE deputy Odón Elorza contended the monument is instead a "symbol of contempt and exclusion" to Spaniards.
[23][24] On 3 April 2017, the Constitutional Commission of the Senate rejected a motion presented by the PNV to re-designate the Valley as a centre for interpretation of the Civil War.
[28] On 29 June 2018, the Archdiocese of Madrid warned the Spanish government against any plans to exhume the remains of Franco without first obtaining agreement from interested parties.
In addition to its statement, the Archdiocese of Madrid reaffirmed that although the Valley is officially a national monument, the Catholic Church must be consulted on burial-related matters under agreements between the Spanish state and the Vatican.
The PP further stated it would appeal the measure to the Constitutional Court, arguing that using a decree to change the Historical Memory Law is invalid because the proposed modifications do not respond to a situation of urgent need.
[44][45] On 19 March 2019, the Francisco Franco National Foundation filed an appeal with the Supreme Court contending the February agreement of the Council of Ministers for the exhumation is "null and void" for violating "openly" not only the Constitution but also the royal decree that modifies the Historical Memory Law and "all the regulations that make up the legal regime" of the B, in addition to European laws and regulations.
It was then secured in a waiting helicopter, transporting it to the Mingorrubio-El Pardo municipal cemetery, where Franco was reburied alongside his wife, Carmen Polo.