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Cádiz: City Council to Debate Renaming Teatro del Parque to Pemán

Adelante Izquierda Gaditana files motion against the name change and the potential return of Carranza for the stadium, citing the Democratic Memory Law.

Facade of an Andalusian town hall with a balcony and iron railings, warm afternoon light.
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Facade of an Andalusian town hall with a balcony and iron railings, warm afternoon light.

The municipal group Adelante Izquierda Gaditana will present a motion at the next Cádiz City Council Plenary session to prevent the Teatro del Parque from being renamed Teatro Pemán and to request the closure of the expediente to reinstate the name Carranza for the Nuevo Mirandilla stadium.

The political party aims to halt the decision by the People's Party government, led by mayor Bruno García, arguing that such actions could contravene the Democratic Memory Law 20/2022.
The core of the debate lies in the proposal to rename the Teatro del Parque in honor of the Cádiz-born writer José María Pemán. Adelante Izquierda Gaditana believes this designation would constitute an institutional recognition of a figure linked to the 1936 coup d'état and the subsequent Francoist dictatorship.
AIG councilwoman Vanessa Sibón emphasized that the measure should not be viewed as a mere cultural matter. She recalled that Article 35 of the Democratic Memory Law prohibits the exaltation of the military uprising, the dictatorship, or those who actively participated in it through the naming of public spaces.
According to Sibón, the issue is not to debate Pemán's literary quality but to determine whether a democratic institution should publicly honor a "principal propagandist and ideologue of Francoism."
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"This is not about discussing José María Pemán's literary quality, but about deciding whether a democratic institution should grant public honors and recognition to someone who was one of the main propagandists and ideologues of Francoism."

Vanessa Sibón · AIG Councilwoman
The motion, jointly drafted with the Association of Historical Memory of Cádiz, proposes four key agreements. Firstly, it urges the local government to strictly apply the Democratic Memory Law. Secondly, it requests the cessation of the name change for the Teatro del Parque, maintaining its current name as a public space without controversial links to the dictatorship.
Additionally, it demands the definitive closure of the expediente to restore the name ‘Carranza’ to the Nuevo Mirandilla stadium, a designation that was modified in 2021 under the same historical memory regulations.
Finally, the initiative asks the government team to avoid future actions that reinstate honors or public recognitions incompatible with the Democratic Memory Law. The matter will return to the municipal Plenary to debate the scope of state law in the designation of the city's public spaces and the criteria for such decisions.

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