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About 900 residents have been affected in recent months by the change of the 9 streets with Francoist references that exist in the street (17/08/2016)

About 900 residents have been affected in recent months by the change of the nine streets with Francoist references that exist in the street, whose trial started last April, and that Totana approved the plenary in September.

The municipal government of Totana proceeded to change in two different phases: first five of the nine streets were changed with these references, while the remaining four were modified in May.

The City Council has thus replaced all the streets and spaces of the urban area of ​​the town gradually referring to the Franco dictatorship by other names with more local projection that have excelled other personal or professional values, leading to a series of procedures those affected and adaptation process.

The departments of Citizen Participation and Services have worked in recent months in implementing this order that would respond to the Plenum, eliminating definitively the names associated with the Franco dictatorship both in streets and squares, being replaced by names people who have stood out for their commitment to Totana in different branches of science or human values.

Thus, this process has been accompanied by an information campaign to neighbors, including a letter he has sent the Mayor of Totana, Juan José Canovas, neighboring residents in the areas concerned.

In addition, it has focused on helping residents to make their way gradually steps with administrations and entities during a logical transition.

The claim was informationally collaborate with the residents affected in their processing with the entities involved, such as post office, banks, et cetera.

The first fell swoop hit the streets General Muñoz Grandes (is replaced by Antonio Martínez Garrido), General Asensio (Alfonso Sanchez Mateo), General Mola (Narcisa Navarro Morales), General Moscardó (Emilio Cobos Sánchez) and General Sanjurjo (Romualdo Lopez Canovas) .

The next phase allowed the change of name of the street Calvo Sotelo (Alberto Gray Peinado), Onesimo Redondo (Soledad Perellón Almagro), General Varela (Ambrosio López Carrasco) and Federico Servet (Matilde Casinello Clares).

The plenary agreed to this initiative last September, with the votes in favor of Totana Win-IU and PSOE against the PP and the abstention of C's, with which it intends to comply with current regulations regarding the Historical Memory law.

In 2007 was published in the BOE the Law of Historical Memory that came to redress injustices and persecutions submitted against the people who fought for freedom and against the dictatorship in Spain and suffered persecution or death for defending the republican legality, defeated by the weapons in a civil war that should never happen, as picked up the motion.

The state law passed in 2007 provides, inter alia, that the government take appropriate measures for the removal of shields measures, badges, plaques and other commemorative objects or references of exaltation, personal or collective, the military uprising, War civil and repression of the Dictatorship.

The exception is strictly private memory mentions, without exaltation of the facing, and the attendance protected religious artistic artistic, architectural or reasons why the law.

To do this, governments should develop uncatálogo vestiges relating to the Civil War and the Dictatorship.

The alderman of Totana, Juan José Canovas, expressed his satisfaction to realize a measure that comes to comply with applicable state law;

and he stressed that the process has been accompanied by institutional collaboration to avoid causing inconvenience to residents and avoid hassles maximum when take the necessary steps to give effect to the resulting changes.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana

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