FILE PHOTO: A man walks underneath a huge Franco-era coat of arms at the Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen) mausoleum and basilica which serves as a tomb for former dictator Francisco Franco and where over 30,000 fighters from both sides of Spain's civil war are buried, in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, outside Madrid, Spain, June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Susana Vera/File Photo
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain will exhume the body of dictator Francisco Franco to remove it from a state mausoleum seen by many as a monument to fascism, the Socialist government announced on Friday, in one of its last moves before a snap election due on April 28.
The plan to move divides opinion in a country conflicted about the dictatorship that ended with his death in 1975. The exhumation has been delayed several times, but the government said on Friday it would go ahead on June 10.
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