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Vox councillor Mario Ortolá and Indalecio Prieto street in Alicante. SHOOTORI/TA
Vox demands removal of Indalecio Prieto street in Alicante for being 'bloody and violent'

Vox demands removal of Indalecio Prieto street in Alicante for being 'bloody and violent'

The populist party reignites the controversy over street names at the municipal plenary

Adrián Mazón

Alicante

Jueves, 16 de enero 2025, 17:50

Controversy returns over the naming of streets in Alicante. After battles during the tripartite era - PSOE, Guanyar, and Compromís - to remove 'Francoist' streets from the city, Vox is launching a new offensive by demanding the removal of Indalecio Prieto street from the local street map.

The municipal group of the populist party in Alicante will bring an institutional declaration to the Plenary next Thursday, requesting the removal of the name of the historic leader and PSOE militant from a street in the Pla del Bon Repós neighbourhood, located on one side of the Marq.

Location of Indalecio Prieto street in Alicante. TA

Vox councillor Mario Ortolá considers that this socialist politician, who held various ministerial positions during the Second Republic, was "one of the bloodiest and most violent Spanish figures of the 20th century" for actively collaborating in the Asturias coup of 1934.

According to the councillor, Prieto "does justice to the historical identity of the PSOE and the rest of the Spanish far-left, actively fought against the democratic values of political pluralism and religious freedom, and directly attacked the government of the Second Republic in 1934, arming the coup plotters with rifles, machine guns, grenades, bombs, and hundreds of thousands of cartridges, in an armed insurrection that cost the lives of more than 2,000 Spaniards."

"This episode was, without a doubt, according to many historians, the beginning of the hostilities and civil confrontations that led to the Civil War. The leftist tendency to divide Spaniards and provoke artificial confrontations among us remains alive and well, taking as a model the sectarian actions of criminals like Prieto, who shed blood for a sectarian and totalitarian ideology," adds the populist councillor.

Vox claims that "the shadow of crime also looms over Prieto when one of his personal bodyguards and PSOE militant, in support of a group of assault guards, kidnapped four children - in their home and in front of their mother - from José Calvo Sotelo, a monarchist deputy, on July 13, 1936, to then execute him with two shots to the head."

"The persecution of political opponents and attacks on national unity and integrity are two crimes that directly attack the democratic values that the far-left falsely claims to defend," Ortolá concludes.

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