"Today a new uprising starts". That's the main idea of the Francisco Franco Foundation in an editorial published today, 18th July, 82 years to the day after the dictator's coup d'état. The text argues that a new uprising is needed of "united Spaniards in the face of those Spaniards who want to divide".
"Rise up and you'll triumph. Spain, in the end, will always triumphs", argues the article which says that "today, like in 1936, a revolutionary movement is needed".
"On 18th July 1936 more than half of Spain rose up in arms to defend the integrity of our homeland and the Christian roots of our nation in the face of the imminent Communist revolution which threatened the very existence of Spain," the article continues. It also argues that they have to defend a "system" which they trace back to 18th July and Francoism which "was transformed through the '78 Constitution".
The editorial comes the same day it emerged that Franco's remains will be exhumed from his mausoleum in the Valle de los Caídos by the end of August.