EFE
Tuesday February 2, 2016 24:25
On December 22 the Madrid municipal council approved with a majority vote of the left and the opposition Popular Party (PP ), withdrawal of five plates and monoliths honoring people linked to Franco in different parts of the city, Efe said.
According to municipal sources confirmed since last Friday 29 January they began to “remove traces” Franco and the first monuments erected were the shooting of eight religious and tombstones dedicated to political and military.
Government sources in the region of Madrid (PP) Act recalled that the heritage brand that such actions should be subject to consultation with the general direction of regional heritage, so proceedings were initiated to find out if any expedientar the City of Madrid.
According to the president of the Community (region) of Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, be careful with this kind of initiatives and not seek “winners or losers”, but “trying to close wounds.”
The deputy spokesman of the PP in the city of Madrid, Iñigo Henríquez of Moon, said he is running “a hammer to reconciliation national “and that the city also makes breach of previous agreements.
When the municipal council approved the deal, almost month and a half ago, the head of Culture Department, Celia Mayer justified to the extent that “there is room for doubt” that these monuments honor “inciting the coup or executors of crimes against humanity” during the Franco regime.
In the next six months will continue removing more monuments and renaming streets and thirty places linked to the dictatorship, as approved in the last plenary session in December.
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