Overview
- Municipal sources confirmed the death of Ricard Pérez Casado, 80, who led Valencia from 1979 to 1989.
- El País reports he was cremated in a private ceremony on Wednesday following his death earlier in the week.
- The City Council held an extraordinary plenary session that unanimously decreed three days of official mourning.
- All groups—PP, Compromís, PSPV and Vox—backed starting proceedings to dedicate a street or plaza to his name, with a condolence book open at City Hall until Friday evening.
- Pérez Casado is widely credited with the Jardín del Turia, the Palau de la Música and the 1986 urban plan, later serving as the EU’s administrator in Mostar in 1996, while accounts differ on whether his mayoral resignation came in late 1988 or on January 13, 1989.