The Spanish government has decided to move the body of dictator Franco from the Valley of the Fallen. His family has been given 15 days to choose a new location

The Spanish government has formally approved the decision to exhume the body of dictator Francisco Franco from the memorial complex in the Valley of the Fallen .

Franco's family has been given 15 days to choose a new burial site, or the government will choose one itself.

The dictator's descendants, who are strongly opposed to his reburial, are expected to challenge the decision in the Supreme Court. According to El Pais, the government may try to exhume the remains before the court's decision.

• Spain's centre-left government says Franco's grave at the centre of a civil war memorial that includes victims from both sides is divisive, and a 2007 law has banned public glorification of the dictator.
• The Valley of the Fallen was built by order of Franco himself, using the labor of Republican prisoners who fought against Franco. The dictator himself was buried there after his death in 1975, making the memorial a place where his supporters come.