A PROPOSAL to rename a Paris street after late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher has divided politicians in the French capital, Le Figaro newspaper reports.
The proposal to honour the "Iron Lady", who regularly jousted with French leaders whether they were from the Left or the Right, came from a member of the centre-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
Following the announcement of Thatcher's death on Monday, UMP councillor Jerome Dubus said he would submit a proposal for a street or square to be named after her, as a "a small gesture for a great lady".
His proposal drew contempt from leftist politicians.
The leader of the Communist group in the city council, Ian Brossat, who declared that Thatcher's "ultra-liberalism" had an "appalling impact on the state and the working class".
Brossat said his group would submit a counterproposal - to name a street after Bobby Sands, "who died for defending the right of people to self-determination".
Sands was the first of 10 IRA prisoners, who died on hunger strike in Belfast in 1981 over Thatcher's refusal to grant political status to republican inmates.
During the course of his hunger strike, Sands was elected to the House of Commons.
A Socialist Party councillor had yet another idea.
"Dumbfounded" by the proposal for a Thatcher street, Christophe Gerard tweeted: "I will present a wish for a Shakespeare street."
The proposals are expected to be debated at the next session of the Paris council on April 22.
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