The mayor of Elda,Rubén Alfaro, accompanied by the councilor for Equality,Alba García, and the mayor of Heritage and Historical Memory,Beloved Navalón, has announced this morning that the local government will take to the Municipal Plenary next Friday a proposal for the change of fifteen street names in Elda.
Alfaro explained that “the report of the commission of experts that was launched in the previous mandate included a list of streets that did not comply with theHistorical Memory Lawand they proposed their change for having been named in a period in which certain dramatic moments of ourCivil war“
The mayor of Elda has indicated that “after a period of reflection and the excellent work carried out by the departments of Equality and Historical Memory, we are going to incorporate the name of 15 women into the street map of our city. Currently, more than500 streets that Elda has, 214 correspond to men and only ten to women. And, of them, except one, none is from our city. “
Rubén Alfaro has stated that the illustrious women of Elda who will give name to 15 streets are:Natalia Tendero(first woman councilor in the democratic period),Magdalena Maestre(first president of a group of Moors and Christians),Lolita Miralles(businesswoman and first woman who was part of the Association of Footwear Entrepreneurs in Elda),Maria Perni(midwife from 1909 to 1954),Manolita Candel(nurse),Élia Barceló(writer),Otilia Cutillas(footwear businesswoman),Milagros Maestre(aparadora and president of the Classrooms of the Third Age),Antonia Maymón(teacher of the Modern School from 1918 to 1931),Josefina Ferrándiz(teacher from 1932 to 1934),Aurita González(militant of the neighborhood movement) andMaruja Ycardo(nurse and poet).
Three women will also give their names to streets who, following the recommendation of various Elda historians, had a historical role asSibyl of Fortiá(Queen of Aragon and Lady of Elda),Bar Violante(Queen of Aragon and Lady of Elda) andBeatriz de Corella(Countess of Elda). “These are women who, according to historians, developed works and infrastructures, both in the Elda Castle and in the surroundings so that the city grew with splendor in medieval times,” said Alfaro.
Alfaro stressed that “with this measurejustice is donein the streets of Eldense, recognizing the role that women in our city have had throughout history and in different areas. This decision, beyond the readings that each one wants to do, has been agreed with the opposition groups because the proposal has been brought to the Board of Spokespersons to assess the names and none of them has conveyed to us that they were inappropriate. Another thing is the vote that they are going to cast on Friday. “The mayor has concluded showing his satisfaction” because the street map of my city is going to be more feminine, it is going to remember the daughters of Elda, also ourmothersbecause withoutwomen, since the time of the El Monastil deposit, we would not be here. “
The streets to be suppressed, following the criteria of the Elda Historical Memory Commission, are as follows:Alcázar de Toledo, Andrés Amado, Eugenio Montes, Federico García Sanchiz, Pedro González Bueno, Ricardo León, Galician Troops, Vázquez de Mella, Belchite, Brunete, Plaza del Santuario, Alto de los Leones, Luis Batllés, Alféreces Provisionales and José María Pemán.
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