MADRID, 3 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Second Vice President and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has apologized on behalf of the Government for having “taken so long” to carry out the exhumation of the mortal remains of the coup leader General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano and the war auditor Francisco Bohórquez Neighbor of the basilica of the Macarena in Seville and has transferred that she sees it with “democratic normality”.
This is how she expressed herself in an interview on TVE, collected by Europa Press, when asked about how she experienced the exhumation of both coup soldiers that took place tonight after the request made by the central government to the Macarena brotherhood to to comply with the recent reform of the State Democratic Memory Law, which prohibits the presence of the remains of leaders of the 1936 coup d’état in prominent places of public access.
Díaz has admitted that he has “mixed feelings”: “On the one hand with democratic normality, it is what we have to do, but also with sadness because too much time has passed.”
However, the vice president has pointed out that, despite the fact that in Spain there are so many people in ditches and that they have suffered so much, this country “today is a little better”.
