MADRID Madrid City Council announced that it will change the names of streets related to the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975) to comply with the Law of Historical Memory of Spain. This was confirmed at a press conference Rita Master , spokesman for the new municipal government of “Now Madrid” political platform, composed of members of leftist parties, including “We Can”.
Master reported that the streets of the Spanish capital Franco still contain references and therefore do not meet “one hundred percent” the regulations approved in 2007 by the government of socialist Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero .
The street name is changed in coordination “with the districts” of Madrid and with “civil society” as he said. Consequently, it will advocate hear “the proposals of the neighbors” to the new names. The former mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon had consulted with “experts” what city streets should change his name. However, they did not come to realize the changes. His successor at the Palacio de Cibeles, Ana Botella , was denounced along with other 37 mayors to keep symbols of the dictatorship in the streets of the capital.
In the last decade, They have disappeared from Spanish cities and many of the symbols associated with the Franco peoples. In 2008 he retired from public roads of Santander (North) last dictator statue.
“Now Madrid” harvested in the Spanish capital from the second best results in the municipal elections on May 24. Following an agreement with the Socialist Party (PSOE), the former judge Manuela Carmena , ousted mayor of the Popular Party (PP) of Mariano Rajoy after 20 years of conservative government . (DPA-El Mundo)
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