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The leftist formation denounces that while in the United Kingdom they demolish statues that are an affront to Human Rights, in Murcia the Francoist symbol remains. On February 6, 2019, the Ministry of Justice requested 656 town councils of Spain, among which is the Murcia City Council that have Francoist remnants to proceed with their withdrawal.

On February 28, 2019, the plenary session of the city council approved a motion asking to "streamline the procedures to withdraw the Francoist denominations that continue to appear in the municipal official street map, as well as to identify and remove, where appropriate, the vestiges of the dictatorship that are still present in neighborhoods and districts.

" From the area of ??Heritage, Culture, Education and Historical Memory of IU-Verdes Murcia they consider that "enough time has passed for the Plenary Agreements to be fulfilled and for the multiple proposals to be answered, promoted by memorialist associations and victims of Francoism and by different political groups.

" The City Council, as a public institution, must not fail to comply with the regulations, must not allow an inscription in honor of the founder of the phalanx in the historic side of the city, in the side door of the Cathedral, because the image that Murcia gives the visitor It is retrograde when, in reality, Murcian society is plural and diverse.

According to the spokeswoman for the area, Manuela Écija, "it is necessary to urge the ecclesiastical authority and Heritage to erase said inscription and take advantage of the occasion to restore the plinth and reinforce the weaker pieces of said façade, avoiding further detachment." Likewise, in the Plaza de Santa Catalina there is a second vestige,a pre-constitutional shield that should be relocated in some room of the City Museum since where it is can only cause blushes to any democrat and serve as a meeting point and exaltation of hate ideals as happened on May 21.

"This way we could continue but it would be repetitive" said Écija. From IU-Verdes indicate that what is happening in the countries around us cannot be ignored, that they remove statues that violate Human Rights from public spaces, while here the Ballesta Government team turns them into meeting points, "yes We truly want to value our heritage, we cannot continue to keep Francoist traces that only give the image of being a city anchored in the past and that does not comply with the regulations.

Source: IURM