Madrid (EFE).- The Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) dismisses in two rulings the appeals that the Madrid City Council, the Raíces association and Vox had filed against two sentences that challenged, as requested by the UGT and the PSOE municipal group, a plenary agreement to withdraw the names of Largo Caballero avenue and Indalecio Prieto boulevard.
On September 29, 2020, the plenary session of the Madrid City Council approved a Vox proposal to “withdraw from the city of Madrid the names of Largo Caballero avenue and Indalecio Prieto boulevard”, as well as the plaque located in the Plaza de Chamberí dedicated to Francisco Largo Caballero.
Vox’s proposal also called for the removal of the statues erected in Nuevos Ministerios in memory of Largo Caballero.
The PSOE municipal group and the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) union took this plenary agreement to court, and two courts handed down separate sentences in which they upheld both contentious-administrative appeals.
The resources of the City Council, Vox and Raíces
In the judicial process related to UGT, the City Council, the Raíces Historical Memory Claims Association, Javier Ortega Smith (Vox municipal spokesperson), the Vox municipal group and the Vox political party filed appeals against the previous ruling, issued on July 18, 2022 by the Contentious-Administrative Court number 30 of Madrid, which came to challenge the plenary agreement of September 29, 2020.
Regarding the PSOE process, both the Madrid City Council and the Raíces association, Ortega Smith, the Vox municipal group and the Vox political party also filed appeals against the sentence that challenged the plenary agreement.
Now, in two rulings to which Efe has had access this Wednesday, the Second Section of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the TSJM dismisses the appeals in both processes and imposes on the appellants, in equal parts, the procedural costs, with the indicated maximum limit of 3,000 euros.
There are appeals against these two judgments before the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court if the appeal seeks to be based on an infringement of rules of state law or of the European Union.
PSOE and UGT will ask that Largo Caballero’s plaque be placed back in Chamberí square
The spokesperson for the municipal group of the PSOE in the City Council, Reyes Maroto, points out in an audio sent to the press that they are “very satisfied” because the TSJM gives them “the reason”.
“With this sentence, the honor and name are restored, and we are going to demand the reconstruction of the Largo Caballero plaque, destroyed by hammer blows, and also its repositioning in the place from which it should never have been removed: Chamberí square,” he adds. the municipal spokesperson for the PSOE and former Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.
The UGT will also demand that the Madrid City Council “comply with the sentence, immediately replacing the plaque on the facade of the Chamberí District Council (which was dedicated to Largo Caballero), after its reconstruction, stating that it was destroyed when it was illegally removed from the aforementioned façade”, stresses the union in a statement.