SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 26 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Plenary of the Cabildo de Tenerife has approved this Friday an institutional motion, following a joint proposal of PSOE and Sí Podemos, in which Francisco Franco withdraws the title of ‘Adoptive Son’ of the island that was granted to him on 20 August 1936.
The proposal is based on the desire of the corporation to comply with the Historical Memory Law and implies the withdrawal of all its honors and distinctions and affects the condemnation and rejection of democratic society against totalitarian regimes and the use of violence to impose ideological positions.
By virtue of the law, administrations must take the appropriate and necessary measures to remove shields, badges, plaques and other objects or commemorative mentions of exaltation, personal or collective, of the military uprising, of the Civil War and of repression. of the dictatorship.