Schools in Spain that still hold the names of dictatorial leaders

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After fifty years of state, autonomous, and municipal governments of all political colors, there are still educational centers with names of Francoist leaders and of the dictatorship (1923-1930) of Miguel Primo de Rivera. It is not just a matter of slowness, but also of controversy. This Monday, the newspaper El País published that in Alcántara (Cáceres) a controversy has erupted because the educational community has been fighting for a year to remove the name of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera from the facade of the public school. The school has been met with threats from the far-right, insults to the teachers, and the blocking by the City Council (PP) and the Junta de Extremadura (PP-Vox). The argument of the popular mayor, Mónica Granados, for not moving forward with the name change is to preserve "social peace".