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Murcia change has criticized today that the City Council has decided to "ignore" in its agenda of activities the bicentennial of the birth of Antonete Gálvez and the foundation of the city by Abderramán II on June 25 of the year 825.

For municipal training, "no excuses for the Consistory has not organized institutional events" to commemorate these two dates, especially when in 2018 and 2019 were approved in the House two motions in that regard.

"Once again we find approved initiatives that the Popular Party has kept in a drawer without knowing very well the cause why it condemns to oblivion these two events of great importance in the history of the city," sources at Cambiemos Murcia have maintained. .

Antonete Gálvez is "an indispensable figure, even at the national level, for his constant struggle in favor of regional autonomy within a federal republican system in the convulsive end of the 19th century in our country, leading to the Cantonal Rebellion of 1873 where he was the protagonist "

Let's change Murcia explained that Galvez's life was marked by the defense of the oppressed, freedom and democracy, which led him on many occasions to be condemned to death and exile.

He has also criticized "the deplorable state" in which the house of Gálvez is located in TorreagĂźera, despite being a municipal property protected by the General Urban Plan, as well as the degradation and destruction of the historic Huerto de San Blas where it is located. located

Regarding the foundation of the city, he recalled that it took place 1194 years ago by order of the Emir of Al-Andalus, Abderramán II, a "crucial" date in the history of Murcia "since it involved the establishment and development of the city of Madina Mursiya as a center of power before the local tribes ".

"During this time the Huerta became an important agricultural production territory, the city living one of the stages of greater splendor and prosperity, reaching to become one of the main cultural, political and economic centers of Al-Andalus".

The training has described as "incomprehensible" that the City Council "ignore these two facts without the slightest institutional recognition, something that does not happen with the creation of the Council of Murcia on May 14, 1266 by Alfonso X, whose commemoration is being celebrated a few years ago with the programming of various activities ".

Source: Cambiemos Murcia