To the commemoration now in the Congress to Azaña will be added several activities planned in the coming weeks at the Ateneo the Círculo de Bellas Artes the Residencia de Estudiantes and finally from December 17 the exhibition with manuscripts and unpublished videos in the Library National.
The Royal House still cannot ratify the attendance of King Felipe VI to that act in which the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez who wanted to be remembered yesterday in Congress and other authorities are already confirmed
The curator of this exhibition Ángeles Egido León highlights the relevance of several contributions from this exhibition which has been previously unpublished in Spain Azañas original texts will be seen for the first time on his role in the socalled rebellion in Barcelona his arrest and the accusation for having proclaimed the Catalan State of which he was later acquitted The manuscript of La Vida de Juan.
Varela will be exhibited translations of several languages he spoke English French and some Italian and German and will be seen at the foot of the trench during a raid by a delegation from the Madrid Athenaeum on the French front in World War I Some auditions will also be heard with your voice
Azaña in its political dimension is the identification of the values and some achievements of the Republic declared in April 1931 the statute of Catalonia the agrarian reform the vote of women but it was also blamed for its outcome in the civil War Memory is sometimes cyclical and selective So many years later even this Tuesday.
Vox refused to attend the events prepared in Congress On April 14 1931 King Alfonso XIII greatgrandfather of Felipe VI fled from Spain for Cartagena and that month the Republic was proclaimed and a commission of responsibilities for his behavior or unfair collusion with the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and the impulse of the terrible war in Africa with Morocco
In the final presentation before the Chamber an Azaña then as president of the Government put the final point to the conclusions The most luminous thing what will remain as a rare example in the history of Spain is that the regime has been overthrown in means of the universal joy of the Spaniards and without not even by the thought of a single Madrilenian a purpose of aggression happened no longer.
Monarchy considered to be millenary could have fallen without an attempt against only one person Azaña ended up asking for a unanimous vote by conviction and conscience for a political process of historical resonance not a criminal prosecution and reaped by acclamation the accusation of guilty of high treason.
