Controversy over the removal of a Franco statue

A statue of the dictator Franco was removed from the Saragossa military academy on August 24. For the right-leaning daily, the government is seeking to conceal Spain's real problems. "It is not permitted in democracies to deflect the public's attention from the issues that really matter by creating artificial problems that only concern the petty interests of certain parties. However, this strategy is starting to become a habit and, as a result, it becomes less and less effective every time it is used. Democracy implies that leaders should devote their time to resolving problems, not to creating them. ... For new generations, the only importance of the protagonists of the Republican period and Francoism lies in the history books. And the act of re-opening old wounds does serious harm to the system of cohabitation based on the Constitution, and suggests grave irresponsibility on the part of a democratic government."

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