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Catalá, Mayor of Valencia (Pp), on Francoism: “It Is a Stage in History that Has Its Positive and Negative Sides”

Summary by El Pais
50 years after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, has remembered him. The PP’s governor has granted this morning an interview to Onda Zero, where she has assured that Francoism “is a stage of history that has its positive and negative sides.” Minutes later, she has left the station in Valencia and has come to the presentation of a book, where she has nuanced her words. Continue reading

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Maria José Catalá, who governs with Vox, ironizes that she is not "motivated" to talk about the dictator and nuances her words after the criticisms of the oppositionVox presses the PP during the investiture talks with a proposal in Les Corts to overthrow the ZBE The mayor of València and leader of the PP, María José Catalá, chokes her historical memory. The municipal leader, who rules with Vox in the third Spanish city, avoids criticizing the Fr…

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50 years after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, has remembered him. The PP’s governor has granted this morning an interview to Onda Zero, where she has assured that Francoism “is a stage of history that has its positive and negative sides.” Minutes later, she has left the station in Valencia and has come to the presentation of a book, where she has nuanced her words. Continue reading

·Spain
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María José Catalá recognizes the infrastructures made by Franco and, after the avalanche of criticism, she says that the dictatorship 'was a black stage'

·Barcelona, Spain
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The mayor of València, María José Catalá, said that Francoism had "positive and negative" aspects, although later she has assured that it is "a black stage of our country that deserves to be overcome and look forward, condemning what it was," according to EFE.In an interview today in Onda Cero, when asked about whether Franco contributed something positive to Spain, the mayor has said that it is "a stage of our history that has positive and nega…

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“Frankism is a black stage in our country that deserves to be overcome by condemning what it was,” said the mayor of Valencia to questions from the media, who questioned her after the stir caused by statements made to the station Onda Cero in which she had assured that Franco’s dictatorship “is a stage in history that has its positive sides and its negative sides.” Continue reading...

·Granada, Spain
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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Thursday, November 20, 2025.
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