A judge annuls in another sentence the withdrawal of the Largo Caballero plate as it is not adjusted to law

MADRID, 16 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Contentious-Administrative Judge number 15 of Madrid has annulled the agreement of the Plenary of the Madrid City Council of September 29, 2020 between PP, Cs and Vox in the City Council of the capital by which the plaque was removed from the socialist leader Francisco Largo Caballero to understand that it is not adjusted to law.

This is stated in a sentence, to which Europa Press had access, in which the magistrate upholds the appeal filed by the Francisco Largo Caballero Foundation against the resolution of the aforementioned Plenary which approved the removal of the names from Avenida Francisco Largo Caballero and Indalecio Prieto Boulevard.

They also urged the removal of the plaque located in the Plaza de Chamberí dedicated to Caballero and the removal of the statues erected in Nuevos Ministerios in memory of both.

These orders were based on the application of the Municipal Ordinance Regulating the naming and labeling of roads of the Madrid City Council, of 2013.

The magistrate, who imposes the costs on the City Council, underlines in the sentence the absence of precise temporal data that links the events attributed to them with the historical milestones mentioned in article 15.1 of the Historical Memory Law such as the military uprising of 1936, the Spanish Civil War or the subsequent repression of the Dictatorship.

It considers "illustrative" of this insufficient reasoning of the contested agreement "the abundant documentary and/or expert evidence produced by the parties in this proceeding, which lacks any aptitude to replace it, since otherwise it would be using elements foreign to those that The defendant Administration took into account when conforming its will through the act ad".

It also mentions "the abundant evidence that the plaintiff provides in which it is concluded that the opposite of what motivates the appealed resolution, this is that neither Francisco Largo Caballero nor Indalecio Prieto revolted against the Republic, nor did they support or exalt the coup d'état perpetrated by military rebels in July 1936, nor the Civil War that provoked the coup d'état, nor the Franco dictatorship, of which they were victims, being persecuted and dying in exile".

Remember that this point is contained in the expert report provided by José Álvarez Junco, professor of History at the Complutense University of Madrid, to which more than three hundred personalities from the academic and scientific field of the historiographic discipline, both from Spain and abroad, joined. of the international arena.

Already last October, another judge annulled said agreement by estimating on this occasion an appeal from the PSOE declaring it not in accordance with the law and annulling the agreement.

The plenary agreement gave the green light to the withdrawal in Madrid of the names of Francisco Largo Caballero avenue and Indalecio Prieto boulevard; the removal of the plaque located in the Chamberí square dedicated to Largo Caballero and the removal of the statues erected in Nuevos Ministerios in his memory.

PP, Cs and Vox argued the ability to do so in the Historical Memory Law and in the ordinance of road naming and labeling of the Madrid City Council.