Madrid street names change related to the Franco – El Universal (Venezuela)

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Monday July 6, 2015 1:23 PM

Madrid .- The Madrid City Council said Monday it will change the names of streets related to the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939- 1975) to comply with Spanish law of historical memory.

This was confirmed at a press conference Maestre Rita, spokesman of the new municipal government of Madrid now political platform, composed of members of leftist parties, including they can, DPA reported.

Master reported that the street of the Spanish capital Franco still contains references and therefore does not meet “one hundred percent” regulations approved in 2007 by the Socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

The street names will be changed in coordination “with the districts” of Madrid and with “civil society” as he said.

In the last decade, have disappeared from towns and villages Spanish many of the symbols associated with Francoism . In 2008 he retired from public roads of Santander (north) of the dictator’s last statue.

Now Madrid reaped in the Spanish capital the second best result in municipal elections in Spain May 24. Following an agreement with the Socialist Party (PSOE), its candidate, former Judge Manuela Carmena, ousted mayor of the Popular Party (PP) Mariano Rajoy after 20 years of Conservative government.