Gem Equal: The Mayor of Santander assumes the order of the Prosecutor’s Office and will change the name of 16 Francoist streets | Spain

The mayor of Santander, Gema Equal (PP), has assumed the mandate of the Historical Memory Prosecutor’s Office and has agreed to withdraw 16 Francoist names from the Santander street. The governor has announced that the official order will be approved next Thursday, April 24 in the city’s plenary to comply with the requirement to comply with Memory regulations. The prosecutor of the area in Cantabria, Carlos Yáñez, threatened a few days ago with denouncing the Mayor’s Office for breaching the norm, which prohibits the extolling and tribute of the Franco dictatorship. The same has denied the « rebellion » or « deliberate inactivity » that the prosecutor reproached him and has attacked the delay to the « listening » process with the residents of those streets and the procedures to renew the names.

The measure has been known this Monday at noon through a statement from the governor where she has defended himself from the accusations of delaying the times so as not to adapt the street to the opinions of the laws of historical and democratic memory. « Public servants know the duty to comply with the laws, apart from ideologies and any other criterion of political opportunity. And thus has been carried out in Santander, with determined, consulted steps, respectful of the neighbors and with the history of the city itself, » he claimed the same, which has denied that there is « no ideological motivation behind the rhythms » and stressed that in recent years there have been another 16 changes related to this cause. The letter has served in response to the complaints by the Historical Memory Prosecutor, who censored that Santander did not execute what was agreed in the municipal in 2015 and 2016, when the street was approved.

This « inactivity » reproached, according to Yáñez, meant that « the City Council » has been consciously and deliberately in an inadmissible position of rebellion against compliance with the law « , hence also the reaction of the mayor on Monday. The prosecutor insisted a few days ago when The application of state regulations It did not depend on « the ideology or political opportunity » of public representatives, but should be fulfilled without regard, as the sanctions range from the mild, valued in 200 euros, to the 150,000 of the very serious. The prosecutor gave a month to execute these changes in Santander streets.

The brief of the Public Ministry abounded that “the honors of fascist criminals who upset the City Council of Santander openly repuls The right of repair of the victims of Francoism« Gema has also criticized that the alleged voluntary » rebellion « that the prosecutor“ scratches the imputation of serious criminal behaviors, which have already been discarded by the Cantabria Prosecutor’s Office itself, and, therefore, constitute very serious and orphan support statements ”.

The affected roads, as the City Council of Santander has spread, will be these: Alcázar de Toledo is replaced by slope of the souls; Alto de los Leones, by Benito Madariaga; Belchite by José Luis Casado Soto; Brunete by Carmen and Joaquín González Echegaray; Camilo Alonso Vega for José Hierro; Captain Cortés by Miguel Ángel García Guinea; Carlos has by Antonio de Tova and Arredondo; García Morato by Juan Antonio Gutiérrez de la Concha; General Díez de Villegas by José de Bustamante y Guerra; General Dávila for Paseo de Altamira; Provisional Ensign by Fray Silvestres Vélez de Escalante; General Moscardó by Bernardo de Miera and Pacheco; Montejurra by Valentín Lavín Casalís; Ruiz de Alda by Juan de Santander; Provisional sergeants by Leonor Plantagenet and Zancajo Osorio by Leonor de la Vega.

On the other hand, the Consistory has announced that while processing these substitutions will eliminate the honors and merits granted in the past to the dictator Francisco Franco and the former president of the Francoist government Luis Carrero Blanco, born in Santoña (Cantabria). The same has detailed that he will inform the Memory Prosecutor’s Office of each advance or process carried out in this area.