The mayor of the city of Badajoz OlivenceManuel José González Andrade, urged this Saturday the Minister of National Defense of Portugal, Nuno Melo, to abandon “the speeches that build walls and provoke divisions”, after the claim made by the Portuguese last Friday to Spain to cede the city located near the border between the two countries.
“Olivenza has a shared history that it is very proud of because it makes us unique,” González Andrade said in a message on her social networks in which she called on the head of the Portuguese Defense portfolio to “continue working” to “seek together a future of opportunities.
Likewise, the former president of the regional government of Extremadura, also from Olivenza, Guillermo Fernández Vara, claimed the city of Badajoz as a “city of Extremadura and Spain”, proud of its Portuguese past“.
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“We feel like “children of Spain and grandchildren of Portugal”“Yesterday’s borders are today’s bridges that build the Europe to which we belong together,” stressed the former socialist regional president via his X account (formerly Twitter).
Last Friday, Melo claimed the Oliventine city as a Portuguese municipality “by treaty”, ensuring that its claim on Spain is a “just” right and not a “provocation”.
The Portuguese minister referred in particular to the Treaty of Alcañices, signed by the Crown of Castile and the Kingdom of Portugal in 1297, stressing that the Portuguese State does not recognize Olivenza as Spanish territory.
