Totana City Council has withdrawn definitively signs of Francoist nine streets that have been removed from the street and have shared name adjustment period in recent months the neighbors with the new nominations that replaced onwards.
About 900 residents have been affected in recent months by changing the way with Francoist references that existed in the street, whose trial started last April, and that Totana approved the plenary in September.
The municipal government of Totana has proceeded to change in two different phases: first five of the nine streets were changed with these references, while the remaining four were amended last May, although the old and new signs have coexisted since then to facilitate familiarization neighbors and users.
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.
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.
