Santander withdraws Franco’s title of “ Honorary Mayor” following pressure from the Human Rights Prosecutor’s Office

Francisco Franco has ceased to be honorary mayor of Santander almost 50 years after his death. The dictator has lost that status of privilege after being agreed by the Santanderino City Council, the result of pressure from the Human Rights Prosecutor’s Office, which has demanded compliance with the legislation of Historical Memory and the agreements closed in plenary in 2015, which had not been fulfilled. Santander has also been reprimanded for …

The Official Gazette of Cantabria publishes the plenary agreement of the City of Santander in April in which it approved to dispossess him of all the titles -and also to Carrero Blanco-, after the reprimand of the Prosecutor's Office that accused the Consistory of being "in absentia"

The dictator Francisco Franco has ceased to be honorary mayor of Santander on Wednesday, after the publication in the Official Gazette of Cantabria of the agreement of the plenary of the City Council in which the honor was withdrawn, according to EFE.This publication invalidates the plenary agreements of 21 August 1946, 4 January 1952, 3 July 1968 and 7 March 1974 by which honorary mayor titles, the Gold Medal and the Golden Key of Santander to …