Ximo Puig, president of the Generalitat Valenciana, questioned Culture Minister Miquel Iceta’s policy against the transfer of artifacts by national museums this Thursday; It was included in the first museum, as in the case of Lady of Elche. From the Valencians.
And this refusal is something that the head of Culture has made clear in an act recently invited by INFORMATION at the Casa Mediterráneo in Alicante. He flatly refused to give up unless the technicians said he could “travel”; But, 15 months ago An assurance was given by the General Directorate of Fine Arts that the work would be subjected to further investigations to determine its condition, and no further news was received on this matter. Actually, the mayor himselfCarlos González, who said he would be careful about the results a year ago, admitted that he had no specific knowledge of what the technicians discovered (if they discovered anything) in this action.
Generalitat’s tweet
The leader of the socialists uploaded a tweet this Friday through the official channel of the Generalitat Valenciana, where he talks about something once again. especially thorny because he is a minister from his own party who refuses to surrender. In fact, Puig made no reference to the refusal being a technical matter.
In the tweet, he reproduces part of an interview conducted by local television station TeleElx in which he addressed this topic, replying in less than a minute. journalist Salvador Campelloand accompanying text: “Has to return to Lady Elx” “Why do all National Museums have to be in Madrid? We want part of the National Archaeological Museum to be in Elx”
HE It’s clear what the president says: “We argued and will continue to advocate that of course the Lady should be in Elche. National museums don’t have to be in Madrid. Everything doesn’t have to be centralized.” Then he asks himself: Why not a chapter or a part of the book? National (Archaeological) Museum Is he permanently in Elche?”.
“Centralization is not smart”
The head of the Generalitat later said, “I defended Spain’s federalism and political decentralization. That’s what we’re talking about when we talk about decentralization not being smart. Why do all museum centers basically have to be in Madrid?Why can’t they be decentralized?? Our ultimate goal is to have a section of the Archaeological Museum in Elche, at least as far as reading about what a particular period was like in Spain”, Reference to the Iberian world To which the Lady of Elche belongs.
Before the campaign?
Seven Sundays away from the fact that it exists municipal and district elections, Puig’s message can be interpreted as pre-election because no work or announcement has been made, it is not known that a proposal has even come to the table, let alone the Minister of Culture sitting at the table. What Puig is currently proposing is to link not only the transfer but also the establishment of a MAN sub-headquarters in Elche; Lady of Elche’s Ibero art more than justifies this investment. The interesting thing about the case is that for seven years the city of Jaen hosts the Ibero National Museum, inaugurated by the King and Queen of Spain. They requested that the bust of Elche be loaned from their address, even for the opening in 2017, but they could not get it.
Four years ago, then-Minister of Culture, José Guirao, came to the municipal elections in the middle of the pre-campaign and assured him that he would return to the city. If the socialists had won the polls, as are. Months later, the mayor insisted on arranging a room for the “visit,” but he did not come.