The residents of the Madrid municipality of Alpedrete They continue to fight for the town council to rectify and restore the names of the actors Paco Rabal and Asunción Balaguer in the house of culture and in the town square. Therefore, this Saturday at 7:00 p.m. there is a protest rally in which the neighbors will be, but also the world of culture and politics.

The Alpedrete City Council, where PP and Vox govern in coalition, has decided to replace the name of Plaza Paco Rabal with Plaza de España, while the Asunción Balaguer House of Culture will be renamed La Cantera. The children of this marriage will deliver 5,788 signatures to the City Council against this change of designation upon understanding it. “unjustifiable” and an “attack on the entire world of culture”.

The world of culture refuses to let the memory of Paco Rabal and Asunción Balaguera disappear from Alpedrete, where they lived for years. “But have they gone crazy?” actor Antonio Resines has asked himself. “Why the hell is this stupidity coming from? But why do they take it away from these gentlemen? Isn’t it because ideologically they have nothing to do with PP and Vox?”, the indignant actor has expressed.

He has attacked both formations and has ordered them to “study”: “To study… yes, those of the PP and Vox should study and know who Paco Rabal and Asunción Balaguer are, man please, I hope this demonstration is of some use “. From the Union of Actors and Actresses they show their rejection of him and together with his family they have made a manifesto with thousands of signatures attached for the City Council to back down.

“We oppose this decision that only aims to attack culture and tarnish the Historical Memory of our country.“, they point out in a statement. When Paco Rabal died in 2001, the Town Council named the town square after him, but today it is no longer there, just like Balaguer’s. The couple were members of the Communist Party, only reason their children believe they have retired their names. “My father has not killed anyone nor has my mother. Taking away their names seems to me like an attack on culture,” said Teresa Rabal.

While his brother Benito assures that it is because they were leftist: “The only reason there is is because they were from the PCE and they were left-wing people, even though they had friends and respected all kinds of ideologies.”

For their part, Más Madrid and PSOE will participate this weekend in Alpedrete against the removal of the name Francisco Rabal from one of the town’s squares, while the PP has stressed that only the space of the tribute changes, which will now be a room in a cultural center that will bear the name of this actor. Some ministers such as María Jesús Montero and Pilar Alegría will be present.