Francisco Franco National Foundation


The Francisco Franco National Foundation or National Francisco Franco Foundation is a foundation created in 1976 which promotes a positive interpretation of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. The only child of Franco, Carmen Franco led the organisation and later became its honorary president.
In 2017 200,000 people signed a petition, calling on the Spanish government to ban the organisation.
In 2018, after new Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez promised that Franco's remains would be removed from the Valley of the Fallen, the Foundation collected a petition with 24,000 signatures to oppose the proposal, with its leader, General Juan Chicharro Ortega, calling the site a "monument to reconciliation".