The Seville city of Peñaflor will remove the name of Juan Carlos I from a municipal street after the proposal was successful in the plenary session in the city council governed by Izquierda Unida, which received the support of the Socialist Workers Party and the Popular Party.
The mayor of the municipality, which has a population of 3,600 and is located 80 kilometers from the capital, José Ruiz, explained to EFE that this is a proposal put forward by the IU in the plenary session, which rules by an absolute majority, while the PSOE and the Popular Party have two councilors and one councilor respectively, and all agreed to cancel the titular king’s name, which will now be changed to “Largo”, which is the common name of the street.
In fact, the street had this name until 1979, when the first city council of the current democracy decided to change it to Juan Carlos I, but it has now been changed in response to the “Association of Friends of Peñaflor”, which presented it at a conference on local heritage.
In those days it was required to place signs bearing the old names of streets under the new ones, but in the case of Juan Carlos I the circumstances arose “that this street had never been called that, so the most logical thing would have been to change the sign directly.”
The proposal was presented to public session and received unanimous support from the eleven council members, and within a few days the new sign will be removed and officially erected.