Don't know about the other hypothesis but de Gaulle was succeeded by Georges Pompidou until 1974 and he by Valery Giscard d'Estaing both Gaullists. The first non Gaullist to win the Presidential Elections in France was the Socialist Francois Mitterand in 1981.
It is my humble opinion that most of that kind of people take Religion like an Football Club membership card. I no longer have the card of the X (usually) Christian Church. Now I am a proud holder of the Odin/Wotan etc Church card. I strongly doubt they have any faith on them. Basically imho it...
This is not one of the themes I like to treat here. But Franco wasn't incompetent. He chose the war he wanted. In the Republican "Ofensiva del Ebro" he was in Zaragoza (North of the Ebro) and instead of going down the river north border (and bagged the best part of the Republican Army) he chose...
Both my parents were, absolutely, convinced of trueness of that insinuation. But at least Sanjurjo's one was probably an real accident. Mola collision with a mountain in the mist is full of conspiracy theories.