Alpedrete will once again have Paco Rabal and Asunción Balaguer to name its streets. This is what the City Council of the Madrid municipality expressed in a statement issued on Monday night: “This is a Government that listens, that cares for its neighbors and that is at the foot of the street. For all this, I want to reiterate our respect and love to Paco Rabal and Asunción Balaguer and, in this sense, the next Government Board rwill establish the name of the square and the cultural center“. Far from recognizing the step backwards, the government team has argued in that press release that the reason for the decision taken weeks ago has not been understood, and has taken advantage of the writing to attack the left.

“We had received the residents’ desire to name a street space in the municipality with Plaza de España, as well as Las Canteras for some municipal space. From the maximum respect to two illustrious figures of our municipality, It was thought to transfer the name of Paco Rabal and Asunción Balaguer to the Municipal Theater, which has no name today. Likewise, the creation of the Asunción Balaguer Theater Group was announced to fulfill a commitment abandoned by the previous progressive government since 2016,” reads the statement issued by the Alpedrete City Council.

Likewise, the municipal executive considers it “evident” that they have not been able to explain the intention of this change, which “at no time was intended to undermine or despise the cultural legacy of two people loved, not only by the residents of Alpedrete, but by the country as a whole. and comply with other existing will in the municipality”. In any case, this decision puts an end to a controversy that had spread to the highest levels of the right. A controversy that started at the end of April, when the children of Rabal and Balaguer made public their indignation at the withdrawal of their parents’ name in Alpedrete.

“Vox, backed by the PP, He’s doing what Nazis always do.which is to end memory and attack culture,” said Benito Rabal, son of the artists, before the microphones of laSexta, recalling that his “parents had a progressive ideology and were members of the Communist Party” and implying that this issue It had a lot of weight in the decision that the extreme right had made. The expansion of criticism was such that its demands were soon addressed by the media. Without going any further, here, in laSexta, Teresa Rabal showed her discomfort and rejection. to the removal of his parents’ license plates and recalled that Aznar chartered a plane to bring his father’s ashes.

“What’s happening to the PP now?” he asked himself while assuring that they would take to the streets to protest the decision. Said and done: Alpedrete was filled with admirers and sympathizers of Rabal and Balaguer who did not cease in their proclamation: to restore the names of the artists in Alpedrete. The reverberation of this protest was such that it forced to the PP of Madrid and even to Genoa to position themselves against the City Council’s decision, as they showed this Monday. “From the Community of Madrid and the PP of Madrid we are totally against the decision made by the popular mayor of Alpedrete, to remove the name of Paco Rabal and Asunción Balaguer from a square and the house of culture,” he said just ago. a few hours Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

The president of the Community of Madrid reported in a message published on social networks that she had asked Alpedrete for a “rectification” about the decision she made. But the national PP went even further. With Borja Semper as spokesperson, Génova warned that this decision was “nonsense” and trusted “in an urgent rectification of the city council“. laSexta had managed to speak during the afternoon of this Monday with the popular mayor of Alpedrete, Juan Rodríguez Fernández Alfaro, after the controversy unleashed. The popular had told this chain just when he was leaving the town hall after a meeting with his team that the rectification It was already on the table.