The president of the Junta de Extremadura, Maria Guardiola, has warned tonight that Extremadura “will not tolerate privileges that harm us or discrimination between territories” that harm this region and has warned that “we will not leave room for anyone who wants to break coexistence in equal rights and obligations.”, in relation , although without mentioning him, to the Catalan independentistas now led Carlos Puigdemont.
In his first speech on the occasion of the Extremadura Day, whose institutional act was held in the Roman Theater of Merida, Guardiola has affirmed that “this land” deserves a common effort and its “right to function better” and has demanded “a respect that it owes us” and a “rabid push” among all Extremadurans because, he assured, “Extremadura counts”.
For Guardiola, “plurality is compatible with unity because ideological differences should not be an obstacle to the common search for a better future” and he has warned that “Extremadura can and has the right to function better”, using as an example the winners of this edition. In this sense, he stressed that “talent also works, the people of Extremadura who have received these medals are a model of commitment, self-improvement, effort and confidence”.
Thus, he stressed that “history has put our resilience to the test, but we also have the right to be ambitious. It is not only what we are, it is what we want to be, it is the respect that is owed to us. Extremadura counts and must still count more for the rest of Spain. And I want to count on all Extremadurans”.
The medals, awarded by the Governing Council of the Junta, have fallen to the research team of the Tartesian Deposit of Houses of the Turuñelo of Guareña (Badajoz); in the Oncohematology Unit of the Maternal and Child Hospital of Badajoz; he College of Our Lady of Carmen Vedruna, of Villafranca de los Barros; he Harvest Rally of Almendralejo, the Extremadura Newspaper.