Alternative Yes we can aim to demolish the monument to Franco in the roots. Fidel Vázquez candidate for mayor of El Rosario by Yes We Can handed in the records of the City of El Rosario and Cabildo de Tenerife works projects and environmental impact to implement the demolition of the obelisk military uprising memorial situated Franco Roots (El Rosario).
"In the negligence and breach of Law of Historical Memory by the municipality of El Rosario and Cabildo and save to Tenerife € 50,000, it can be assumed the demolition of the obelisk "
Fidel Vazquez Benito candidate for mayor of Alternative Yes We Can by El Rosario, announced at a press conference that "had just delivered in the register of the City of El Rosario and the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, the project work with its corresponding environmental impact study and the relevant planning permission application with payment of the corresponding municipal rate, to carry out by the alternative if the demolition of the monument can Franco, located in Mount Roots of the municipality of El Rosario was accompanied by Domingo Garí, Professor of Contemporary History University of La Laguna and parliamentary candidate in the Canaries by Yes We Can, architect Joaquin Galera Lucía Sánchez Prieto Engineering and Forestry, members of Yes, You Can they have done demolition project baseline study and environmental impact and Pedro Fernández Arcila, lawyer and candidate for mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife by Alternative Yes We Can,
The Obelisk memorial was erected as a reminder of where the June 17, 1936, General Franco met with his officers and other generals in the mountains of El Rosario, in order to boost military uprising against the Second Republic.
ecosocialist candidate mentioned that "although the City of El Rosario in two plenary sessions, the first on September 7, 2004 and the second on December 2, 2008, as the City Council on November 28, 2008, agreed to the removal of the obelisk and the subsequent placement of a monument commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the first elections to councils and municipalities, for opening throughout the year 2009. A date there has made such a withdrawal, failing the Historical Memory Law 52/2007 concerning the removal of symbols of exaltation to the Franco dictatorship. "
For Vazquez "Despite numerous requests by various groups to carry out spokesman also leftist group, stated," told the Diario de Avisos, 6 October 2010, Wladimir Rodríguez, Minister of the Environment of the Cabildo Tenerife, acknowledges that although the monument belongs to the municipality of El Rosario, responsibility for forest management under the Environment Department of the City Council and added that the removal of the monument would cost between 40,000 to 60,000 euros, and this factor Economic growth has been that has determined the action, noting that the priority of the area is not there, if not fire and care of the mountain. "
response, Alternative Tenerife Yes We Can, undertakes to perform all the legal procedures for the demolition of the monument with a twofold purpose: first meet Law of Historical Memory and second to save the public purse the cost of that work.
The only economic cost that has made Yes We Can is the application for planning permission, since both projects as legal advice and have been performed free of charge by party colleagues. Also the implementation of the work poses no cost, for that several companies have contacted supporters who would be willing to run free.
Finally Fidel Vázquez stated that "if we were not granted the appropriate license to undertake the demolition work, have prepared the corresponding demand for the municipality of El Rosario and Tenerife Fitted , which would be presented by our colleague Pedro Fernandez Arcila, for breach of Law of Historical Memory in the court of administrative litigation. Would take advantage of our experience in this area, not in vain in September 2010 as a result An application which can present alternative if by Pedro Fernandez Arcila, against the City of Santa Cruz not to apply the Law of Historical Memory was issued the first court ruling in Spain who called for a City the removal of Francoist symbols. "
