The Aragon Government, within the fingers of the PP, tends its hand to the Generalitat of Catalonia to adjust to the sentence of the Supreme Court that forces the Socialist Salvador Illa govt to return the wall work of Sijena, now uncovered within the National Museum d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) of Barcelona, to the Oscense monastery. The Minister of Culture, Tomasa Hernández, is favorable to broaden the interval of 20 days marked by the judicial ruling for the switch of the frescoes, however rejects that Catalonia take the matter to the Constitutional Court.
The Aragonese president, Jorge Azcón, went to the Presidents convention that was held within the metropolis with the concept of with the ability to switch the collaboration plan and the consultants supplied by his authorities to assist on this switch. After the assembly, he careworn that the particular person accountable for executing the sentence is the Generalitat. Azcón has defended that the switch of the mural work of this Aragonese monastery shouldn’t be a matter of political accountability however authorized, and has supplied “technical collaboration” to the Catalan authorities.
For his half, his Minister of Culture of Aragon superior his opposition on Friday to extend the judicial battle round these work, after Junts has requested the Generalitat to go to the Constitutional Court. Hernández, a choose who exercised within the first occasion within the Balearic Islands, hung the toga quickly when Azcón supplied to be a counselor of his authorities. This Friday, earlier than the microphones of the SER chain in Zaragoza, it resorted to the suitable to defend the Aragonese place validated by justice. “We do not understand this invocation to the Constitutional, in this matter the protection does not fit,” he stated. “If this request for Junts is carried out to the Catalan government and this route is opened, a sentence that is firm is delayed because the goods are from Aragon.” The counselor additionally rejects the adhesion doc that the Catalan Culture Minisers made public, making certain that “she has a political nuance, but she is neither technical nor legal.”
Hernández tends his hand to Catalonia. “We really hope, it is a desire and a conviction, that there is collaboration,” he emphasizes. It is the Catalan authorities, Recalca, who has to adjust to the sentence and perform the switch of the wall work “putting the human and technical material means necessary to do so, without looking at the economic reach or repairing expenses.” But “we offer ourselves to collaborate,” he provides.
The Minister of Culture of Aragon trusts the reasonable temper of President Illa, who expects “is a voice supporting compliance with the sentence.” But, on the identical time, he asks to attend for the assembly that the MNAC Board of Trustees could have on June 16, an organ of which the Generalitat can also be half. “We are going to expect what position they adopt,” he says. Hernández acknowledges “the difficulty of voluntary compliance with the sentence” throughout the interval marked by it, that’s, in 20 enterprise days because the ruling got here out on May 27. At that point, the Aragonese counselor clarifies, compliance “does not have to be complete, but a will and start of that fulfillment have to be seen.”
Aragon presents “technical collaboration”, within the phrases of Azcón, as a result of in Catalonia the primary repairs which can be put to the switch of those Romanesque frescoes is the hazard to which they’re broken. The Parliament permitted an announcement with the votes in favor of PSC, Junts, ERC, frequent and CUP through which it’s said that the operation “can behave irreversible risks for its conservation.” The Catalan events present that the mural work “are in a state of fragility, with a great sensitivity to any change in the environment or before possible tensions, vibrations and movements.” They are additionally apprehensive that the return to their group of origin of those frescoes, which have been restored by the Catalan Museum, turns into a “precedent” concerning different current works in different cultural establishments.
The president of Aragon, in his look in Barcelona this Friday after the presidents convention, recalled that the work traveled to New York already London to 2 exhibitions with out so many objections. “Why now when Aragon demands compliance with a sentence is a problem?” Azcón requested.
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