The Supreme Court overthrows the right-wing strategy to prevent the change of Francoist streets

Thousands of vestiges of Francoism survive in public places in Spain almost five decades after the dictator’s death. Some are on plaques, others on shields, others on the names of towns and a large part on the streets of cities across the country. His withdrawal has been carried out, in the best of cases, with the abstention of a right that has never hidden his opposition to the Historical Memory Law. A cross-cutting strategy of boycotting the law and, in particular, the withdrawal of Francoist names from street streets that has come face to face with a final ruling: the Supreme Court endorsed a few days ago for the first time that, with this Law in hand, a local administration can remove the Francoist names from the streets of the city.