Overview
- The center-left government’s 50th‑anniversary events have drawn public attacks from right‑wing parties and Francoist groups.
- Recent legal milestones frame the dispute, including Franco’s 2019 exhumation and the 2022 Democratic Memory law establishing a victims’ registry and removing symbols.
- Scholars such as Julián Casanova argue that instruction on fascism is insufficient, leaving younger generations vulnerable to revisionist claims.
- Cultural programming is intensifying the conversation, with platform retrospectives on the Transition and detailed media reconstructions of Franco’s 36‑day final illness.
- Polling underscores persistent division, with an October survey finding 21% of Spaniards rating the Franco years as good or very good.