Totana City Council has changed this week five of the nine streets with names that refer to the Franco dictatorship, approved by the municipal plenary last September;
while the four remaining will be modified gradually over the coming months.
This fact has it been timed to coincide with sending communications by the Mayor of Totana, Juan José Canovas, to the 350 neighbors who are affected, in a first phase, this change in the way in which reported the procedure so that it generates the minimum administrative condition and discomfort.
municipal workers have placed signs in ceramics, like the rest of the local street, with new street names;
who for a while lived with the old to make life easier for neighboring residents and the services involved, above all, to the post transition.
The City Council will replace all the streets and spaces of the urban area of ​​the town gradually by other names with more local projection that have stood out for other personal or professional values, leading those affected a number of procedures and process adaptation.
The elimination of public roads will rush into two phases.
A first of five streets this week and, second, to be held in the coming months;
both progressively with an instructive sense of procedure.
Thus, this process will be accompanied by an information campaign to neighbors, helping residents and users to make their way gradually steps with administrations and entities during a logical transition.
The claim is informationally collaborate with the residents affected in their processing with the entities involved, such as post office, banks, et cetera.
The first tacada developed during these days affects 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 will allow 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).
For any questions or queries, neighbors can also be seen at the Service User (ground floor of City Hall), Monday through Friday from 9:00 to 14:00.
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.
