The mayor of Valencia, Maria José Cataládemanded this Monday for this city, calling for “unity” and “courage”, for the “fair treatment” that it “deserves”. “We will not bow down to anyone”, declared the first mayor during the presentation of the honors and distinctions that the town hall of the Valencian capital grants to people and entities linked to the city on the occasion of October 9, Community Day Valencian.
Catalá declared that “Valencia will always be above everything and everyone” and considered that the Valencians must “face the new challenges” of “the unity and courage of a people who love each other, who value each other and respect each other.
“Today I want to send a message to all Valencians. We will not bow to anyone, like ours. Senyera Royalewho has the rank of royalty for being doubly faithful: to our land and to our country”, declared the city councilor. After that and “on the eve of the Feast of all Valencians”, he appealed “to this spirit of “unity and courage to demand what Valencia deserves, the fair treatment that corresponds to us.”
“On October 9, we commemorate the Christian reconquest of Valenceour birth as a people, our identity and our essence. Everyone’s. Together. 786 years ago, King Jaume I entered Valencia and with him the symbols that define us”, he stressed, stressing that the monarch taught that “a land that wants to be valued, respected and loved begins by “valuing herself.
Maria José Catalá He declared that the Valencians are a people “proud” of their history and their traditions who, although they “bow to nothing or anyone”, are “loyal and supportive of Spain and the territories that support it”. compose”. Thus, he showed his desire to “contribute to the future of this common project that is Spain”.
This year, on the occasion of October 9, the Valencia City Council awarded the Water Court and the Guild of Artisan Tailors and Seamstresses of the Valencian Community the City Gold Medal; to the Feminist Coordinator of Valencia and the Dones of El Palmar, with the Silver Medal of the City, and to the Breastfeeding Unit of the Doctor Peset University Hospital, with the Bronze Medal.
Additionally, he named athletes Víctor Claver and Ricardo Ten as favorite sons; to the writer Marc Granell and, posthumously, to the filmmaker Luis Lucia Mingarro. Likewise, he singled out the sculptor Miquel Navarro and the artist Rosita Amores as adopted children.
The mayor also mentioned the Valencian writer, journalist and politician Vicente Blasco Ibánezto allude to the “entrepreneurial and non-conformist courage” of the Valencians. “This courage to go further is what will make us stronger in difficult times,” he said.
Catalá assured that this was represented today in the plenary room of the City Council, where honors and distinctions were given to all the winners. Likewise, he affirmed that this plenary room brought together, “in the broadest and most plural sense, what is Valence and its society.” He also claimed his self-esteem to “lead and strengthen” this territory.
“In the name of all Valencians”, the first mayor addressed to the distinguished people her “most sincere congratulations” and assured that they had “the gratitude” of Valencia, a city that they helped to “fly higher” and to “dream”. bigger.” Thus, he expressed his gratitude to those recognized and congratulated them all and their families.
Catalá considered that the awards given are “the greatest and most worthy recognition that the city gives” to the people born there, to its entities and to those who are not from here. “they chose, loved, cared for and respected” this destiny to help “magnify it, strengthen it and make it fly high”.
“Today, in the face of the victors, we claim what we are, what we have been and what we will be. This year, we pay tribute to six people and five entities who represent excellence, social commitment, knowledge, culture, tradition and modernity,” said the mayor. “Talented, creative, self-sacrificing and “equal commitments that break down barriers and overcome conventions once thought to be unshakeable,” he added.
The athlete Ricardo Dix He participated in the event to speak on behalf of all the distinguished personalities and thank them for “the recognition” granted to them by the town hall, “the highest that a city can grant to one of its citizens” or entities .
“We feel extremely proud” and “lucky” to “be able to receive such great recognition and honors,” Ten noted. “Each of us in each of our territories defends our culture, our literature, our identity, our sports and our colors, our way of being and our values. We defend them wherever we go,” he explained.
Ricardo Dix He also highlighted the work of each of them as “exceptional ambassadors” of Valencia, raising their “pride”, recalling that “in every challenge there is an opportunity” and demonstrating their “capacity to shine locally and internationally.
After the event, representatives of the Feminist Coordinator gave the mayor and members of each municipal group – PP and Vox, in government, and Compromís and PSPV, in opposition – a t-shirt “to ask them to incorporate the feminist agenda. in the municipal politics of Valencia.
The entity indicated that everyone received this gift with “education” and “cordiality” –also Vox which rejected the recognition of this group by the Town Hall and which did not applaud when it received its distinction–. “We hope that they will not only be cordial and that they will apply the message of the feminist movement, effective equality between men and women,” they stressed.
From the opposition to the council, Compromise and PSPVwho congratulated the winners and recognized their merits, regretted that on a day of “recognition, celebration, respect and consideration”, Vox did not applaud during the award ceremony to the feminist coordinator and Marc Granell. They criticized the group’s “bigotry”, “ignorance”, “lack of culture” and “fanaticism”.
