The measure agreed at the full council on December 22 with a vote against the PP Mariano Rajoy and support councilors Now Madrid, the Socialist Party (PSOE) and the Liberal Party Citizens.
The team of Mayor Manuel Carmona, left Platform Now Madrid, began unannounced removing traces of Franco on Friday last week, though recently it became known today, and continued to this day, reported the El País also reflected EFE.
So far, the Madrid city council withdrew several plates, memorial tablets and a monolith in honor of people related to the dictatorship and the side whose uprising led to the Civil War (1936- 1939), while in the coming months will also change the name of Franco thirty streets.
Some of them will be given the name of victims of terrorism, as decided a few days ago the full Town Hall, measures taken in compliance with the Law of Historical Memory, passed in 2007 under the government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
The law recognizes and extends rights to victims of civil war (1936-1939) and Franco’s dictatorship (1939-1975) and requires, among other things, to make the Franco street names.
The PP Rajoy expressed his disagreement with the behavior of the team Carmena of the mayor. Is “running a hammer to national reconciliation and political transition and the 1978 Constitution, the Constitution of harmony,” he said a spokesman for the council told local media.
“I do not want to apply the law Historical Memory, want to apply historical sectarianism. And this seems very serious, “he said in solitude that Madrid is right now.
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