Spokesperson Neus Munté argued that the street currently honors Ferdinand VII, an absolutist monarch whose reign was marked by the suppression of freedoms. The party views the current name as a legacy of the Franco regime, which reinstated it in 1939.

Joan Fiveller was a prominent 15th-century head councillor of Barcelona and is considered a symbol of municipal autonomy. The street bore his name between 1931 and 1939 before being changed back by the dictatorship.