The has returned to the facade of the Municipal Board of five years after it was withdrawn after a vote in the municipal plenary that had the support of PP, Citizens and Vox and whose nullity was confirmed by the Supreme Court last July. The piece that honors the historic socialist leader has been placed this Thursday morning, according to sources from the area of Culture, Tourism and Sports. This has raised the criticism of the opposition, which considers that the installation has been “hidden”, since it has not announced the movement, to which it joins that from the PSOE of Chamberí Affeen that the original marble has not been restored.
He has been the spokesman in functions of Más Madrid, who has echoed the restoration through his X account. “Almeida wanted to rewrite the story and hammer the memory of the long gentleman but the citizen mobilization and the supreme stopped his feet. After years of opacity and resistance, the plaque has been restored and replaced in his place. All a democratic victory,” Rubiño said of the piece already placed.
Almeida wanted to rewrite the story and hammering the memory of Largo Caballero but the citizen mobilization and the supreme feet stopped.
After years of opacity and resistances, the plaque has been restored and responded in its place. A democratic victory.
– Eduardo Rubiño 🏳️🌈 (@eduordofrub)
Subsequently, the most Madrid spokesman has lashed out at the municipal government for replacing the “hidden” plaque and has claimed public reopening. “We demand that the mayor make an institutional public act of reopening of the plaque, an act of meeting, of relief before the unfortunate show that the City Council gave and that this is for the repair of the democratic memory of our city,” Rubiño detailed in statements to the media.
The spokeswoman of the Madrid PSOE, has also criticized Almeida for a replacement that, according to the socialist leader, has been done with “nocturnity and alevosía.” “The sentence was clear, that withdrawal was illegal, however, the replacement has been made in the same way, without transparency and without warning either the Largo Caballero Foundation, nor to UGT, nor to the PSOE, which we were those who claimed this injustice,” said Maroto before asking for “respect” to democratic memory and define the plaque as “a symbol of the fight for freedom and the rights of workers.”
A new plaque
The spokesman for the Socialist Municipal Group in Chamberí, Iñaki Prieto, has gone one step further and, after expressing his “pride” for the return of the plaque, has claimed that the piece has not been restored, but that it is a new one. “Actually this is not the plaque, it is a copy. The stone has not been restored, but new, so the destruction of the protected work of art continues. They have not wanted the scars of the hammering of the ultra -right to be left for the future,” he said about the work of the sculptor, composed of a bronze structure and metallic letters placed on the marble, which has a protected.
From the culture area they have explained that the bronze part has been restored, while marble is new due to the “impossibility of guaranteeing the structural stability of the whole with the use of the original materials.” “As is located on the street and the level of exposure to degradation agents is greater, it has been considered that the only option to guarantee the preservation of the set is the use of a new support,” they have detailed.
This Tribute to the Largo Caballero was removed to hammering by two operators on October 15, 2020, coinciding with the 151st anniversary of the birth of the socialist president of the Council of Ministers during the Second Republic. Last July, in addition to confirming the nullity of the withdrawal, the Supreme Court dismissed the resources of the claim of the Historical Memory Roots and Vox against the previous sentences of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid. In this way, he ratified the obligation to replace the withdrawal elements.
