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María Guardiola will receive Salvador Illa in Mérida during the Catalan president’s institutional visit
The meeting was presented by the Govern as part of institutional relations between communities. The agenda in Extremadura will include Diada events and activities linked to the migration of people from Extremadura to Catalunya.
The president of Extremadura, María Guardiola, will hold a meeting this Wednesday in Mérida with the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, as part of the Catalan leader’s institutional trip to that community, according to La Vanguardia.
According to that outlet, the visit seeks to commemorate the Diada del Onze de Setembre and highlight the ties between Catalunya and Extremadura, especially those of a demographic nature. The Govern confirmed the meeting and its spokesperson, Sílvia Paneque, framed it within institutional normality.
Paneque also noted, according to La Vanguardia, that the meeting will also serve to address matters of interest such as regional financing. Although Extremadura rejects that model, the spokesperson said Illa will take advantage of the occasion to argue that the proposal benefits all autonomous communities.
After the meeting became known, regional leaders from the PP and the PSOE stressed its institutional character. Popular Party lawmaker Isabel Cortés said that Guardiola receives Illa as she would any other regional president visiting the region. Meanwhile, the Socialist spokesperson in the Assembly, Isabel Gil Rosiña, considered it very good news that for the first time Diada de Catalunya events will be held outside Madrid in Extremadura, something she interpreted as recognition of the history of emigrants from Extremadura.
According to La Vanguardia, the two-day visit will begin in La Zarza, in the province of Badajoz, where the Monumento al Emigrante is located, a bronze work by local artist Javier Guerrero González-Piñero. The focus of Wednesday’s institutional event in Mérida will be the history of people from Extremadura who emigrated to Catalunya from rural areas, with the figure of Manolo Vital as the thread running through it, based on the film El 47.
On Thursday, Illa will visit the Ayuntamiento de Mérida, where he will be received by mayor Antonio Rodríguez, of the PSOE. Afterwards, the signing of a cooperation protocol between the city councils of Mérida and Tarragona is scheduled to jointly promote the projection and protection of their respective Roman theaters.
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