The single longest legal debate took place in the Portugese Assembleia da República, when Luis Rotundo finally conceded defeat in his campaign to have 15 of the streets of Lisbon named after different animal kingdoms. "It all started with my vision to have an 'Alameda platyhelminthes'," Rotundo told journalists after the debate eventually ended, "And it saddens me that now the majesty of the natural world will not be commemorated in the form of Rua Vetulicolia, Estrada Brachiopoda, Caminho Ctenophora or Rua Nematomorpha." After the debate had lasted from 12th June 2002 until 24th September 2005, Rotundo vowed to plow his political efforts into the field of education and healthcare. He has since left politics to become a Carmelite monk.
The Lisbon street that would have become Estrda Xenoturbellida under the proposed 'Plano Rotundo', pictured by Allie_Caulfield.
©2009 James Mathurin
The Lisbon street that would have become Estrda Xenoturbellida under the proposed 'Plano Rotundo', pictured by Allie_Caulfield.©2009 James Mathurin
