Maximum indignation among the children of Paco Rabal and Asunción Balaguer after the Madrid City Council of Alpedrete, governed by PP and VOX, has decided to remove their names from a square and a cultural center, despite the fact that the actors lived in the town for many years. Their children consider that The City Council made this decision because they were left-wing.

Icon of cinema and theater both inside and outside our borders, Paco Rabal spent a lifetime on stage. A prolific career that From this Friday it takes a backseat in Alpedrete, after the local government has decided to remove its name from a square that will now be ‘Plaza de España’. “Vox, backed by the PP, is doing what Nazis always do, which is to end memory and attack culture,” Benito Rabal, the artists’ son, said before the microphones of laSexta.

They have also renamed the Asunción Balaguer cultural center, in tribute to the actress and wife of Paco Rabal. For her children, the reason is clear: “My parents had a progressive ideology and were members of the Communist Party”says Benito, who assures that it is a painful decision for the family, since the couple lived in the town for two decades.

From the opposition they ask for explanations and They denounce that the decision was made behind the backs of all the people. The PSOE councilor in the City Council, Carlos Carmena Cano, considers that “it is an issue that must be brought to Plenary, that must be debated and that cannot be done unilaterally.” For his part, Carlos García, councilor of Podemos-IU and former mayor of Alpedrete, maintains that “it seems that removing them means that you want to dishonor the person.”

The mayor, Juan Rodríguez Fernández Alfaro, defends that the decision It does not correspond to political reasons and he assures that it is not a question of “being more or less loved than others.” In fact, he clarified to laSexta that “the assembly hall of that cultural center will be renamed ‘Paco Rabal and Asunción Balaguer Assembly Hall’.”

However, this renaming is not enough, so the children of the marriage They have started collecting signatures with which the world of culture is already turning. The objective: reverse this decision.