Sánchez announces Spanish nationality for 170 descendants of the International Brigades

Eduardo González The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Friday that the next Council of Ministers will grant Spanish nationality to the nearly 170 descendants of members of the International Brigades who have applied for it in accordance with the provisions of the Democratic Memory Law. “For the free and democratic Spain that we are, it will be an honor to be able to call them compatriots,” Sánchez declared during the closing ceremony of the event for the 'Day of Remembrance and Tribute to all the victims of the military coup, the War, and the Dictatorship,' held at the National Music Auditorium in Madrid. “By recognizing this right, we are appealing to the very defense of democracy in a time of threat and regression throughout the world,” he added. At the closing of the event, the head of the Executive highlighted that the Government assumes this commitment along with two other tasks: the acceleration of the procedure to judicially request the dissolution of the Francisco Franco Foundation and the approval in the Council of Ministers, before the end of November, of the Royal Decree that regulates the Catalogue of symbols and elements contrary to democratic memory, "so that they are removed once and for all from the streets, without excuses and without delays, out of common sense, because no democracy, and least of all ours, honors coup plotters."

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