The Contentious Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) has sided with the Municipal Socialist Group in the previous sentence that challenged the agreement of the Plenary Session of the Madrid City Council on September 29, 2020, by which it withdrew from the city the names of Francisco Largo Caballero avenue and Indalecio Prieto boulevard, in addition to the plaque located in the Plaza de Chamberí dedicated to the former.
The plenary agreement, supported by PP, Cs and Vox, also urged the removal of the statues erected in Nuevos Ministerios in memory of the two socialist leaders who, among others, encouraged the 1934 insurrection after the right-wing entered the Government.
The Madrid City Council, the Asociación Vindicativa de la Memoria Histórica Raíces and the Municipal Vox Group filed appeals against the initial sentence, issued in October 2022 by the contentious-administrative court number 1 of Madrid, which agreed with the PSOE in challenging the plenary agreement.
Now the decision of the TSJM, to which Europa Press has had access, dismisses the appeals filed by the City Council, Vox and Raíces, confirming the appealed resolution and imposing on the appellants, in equal parts, the procedural costs of this second instance, with a maximum of 3,000 euros.
The mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, justified at the time the withdrawal of recognition from Largo Caballero, assuring that the "Spanish Lenin" should not be "the object of any tribute" while he slipped that "he was one of the great responsible for the repression and massacres that took place in republican Madrid in the first months of the Civil War".
