The Arrecife City Council approved this Tuesday the definitive list of street names that will be incorporated into the municipal street map in the second phase of application of the Historical Memory Law, since its approval in 2007. After reviewing various allegations presented by relatives and people registered in some of the affected streets, the Plenary approved the relevant changes, with the support of all political groups, except the Popular Party, which voted against.
Finally, Jacinto Borges Street will maintain its name, as will the one that bears the name of Colonel Valls de la Torre, who will be stripped of his military rank and his first name, Ildefonso, will be incorporated, to recognize his civil career and not his military rank. Viera y Clavijo Street will not be displaced from its current location. For its part, General García Escámez will be known as Doctor Juan Negrín and Fernández Ladreda will be Amadou Ndoye.
In his speech, the mayor of Arrecife, Manuel Fajardo, accepted "the glove" thrown by Alternativa Ciudadana to, in a third phase of revision of the street map, incorporate "names of protagonists of the small history of the city".
For her part, the councilor responsible for the file, Eva de Anta, considers it "essential to heal old wounds and repair the victims of the Civil War and the Dictatorship." "Eliminating elements of division among citizens, such as triumphalist monuments or streets with names and places related to the fratricidal conflict of the last century, is not trying to erase history, but to end the trace of a dark stage in our evolution," he said.
