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The team formed by the students of the University of Murcia, Francisco Javier Torres and José Miguel Rojo, managed to reach the final of the Parliamentary Debate Tournament Autonomous University of Madrid that was held last weekend in the capital.

The Debate Club of the University of Murcia, close to six years of existence, was proclaimed runner-up in the "II National British Parliament Tournament" held at the Autonomous University of Madrid and where 40 teams from various university institutions of Spain met.

Francisco Javier Torres, a law student and José Miguel Rojo, a student of Political Science and Public Management, both from the University of Murcia, managed, after more than 7 disputed debates, to reach the semifinals as third-classifieds, where they also managed to overcome the round and placed in the final with the teams of the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas and another from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Francisco Javier Torres, who is also President of the Debate Club, said he was "very grateful to the Culture Service of the University" for allowing us to go to Madrid, an expedition that completed another Murcian team, composed by Ana Conway McHugh and Alba H. Santana, and a judge of the competition, Carmen Parras.

The 9 debates that the people of Murcia took ranged from the prohibition of homeopathy to the suitability of promoting the squat movement in Barcelona, ​​through cooperation for development and the relationship between advertising, marketing and feminism.

In the final round, which generated great expectation, Torres and Rojo defended the constitution of a commission of investigation on the crimes of the Franco regime.

The debaters consider that "these tournaments are a great opportunity to speak from logic and critical thinking about public problems" and consider the debate associations as "fundamental elements for a democratic, critical and participatory society".

The good results of the Murcian debate are complemented by the top 5 speakers of the tournament.

José Miguel Rojo was among that group of best speakers of the meeting.

Rojo affirmed, after knowing his position, that "oratory has to be at the service of a better world and not of empty persuasion".

Source: Universidad de Murcia