Overview
- The Puente de Génave mayor, Francisco García Avilés, promoted a 2026 calendar featuring Franco's image and the slogans “Franco, Franco, viva España, arriba España.”
- The calendars were announced for distribution as gifts to clients of his private gestoría, which is currently registered under his former partner’s name.
- The Subdelegación del Gobierno in Jaén opened an administrative file and referred the matter to the Secretaría de Estado de Memoria Democrática.
- PSOE, Adelante Andalucía and the PCE condemned the material as exaltation of the dictatorship and urged the Fiscalía to evaluate possible legal action.
- García Avilés defended the calendars on social media as an exercise of free expression and is a repeat offender after a similar Francoist almanac circulated in 2024; the row has coincided with the disappearance of a giant Spanish flag at the town’s entrance.