The events that occur on May 2, 1808 were reproduced in numerous engravings, the zero kilometer that marks the start of the roads, the clock that was installed and replaced to the one in the missing church of the good event, which failed so much … All these actions are linked to the door of the sun and the Royal Correos House. The different experts in a video that the Community of Madrid has prepared on the occasion of the 40 years of its conversion into regional headquarters. In an extensive tour of the history of the building, in which experts and several regional former presidents are involved, the idiosyncrasy of the property is defended, in an attempt that the initiative of the central government for appointing it a place of democratic memory does not become the focus of its essence.
José Barrionuevo himself, former Minister of Interior, explains how he became the headquarters of the regional government – now 40 years – through an exchange between administrations. “I see it as a triumph of democracy and the desire to agree between public administrations,” summarizes Juan Barranco, former mayor of Madrid.
Ruiz-Gallardón recalls that one of the advice that Leguina gave him when they did the relay in power was the deep reform of the property. “I ignored him,” defends the politician. The inauguration was, he says in the video, “a joy because we managed to finish what Leguina had begun, to give dignity through its headquarters to the institution itself.”
The documentary also remembers, by the mouth of Ruiz-Gallardón, that “every time there was an attack and a dead, here at the door, without any political color, we represented the pain of the Madrid.” It considers that it is not remembered as the past of the Royal Correos House, the DGS or where the Republic was proclaimed but “the present with which we identify the future.”
In the video, available in Playmad, the free digital TV platform of the Community of Madrid and on the social networks of the institution, the writers and experts such as Andrés Trapiello, Pedro Corral, Bartolomé González and Francisco José Marín Perellón have collaborated. “Setting the building to one of these stages would be nonsense,” says Trapiello, in an argument that also supports Esperanza Aguirre, calling it “guerracivilist.”
“Barrionuevo’s idea was to end the stigma that this house had and that does not have to return, because the building has recovered for democracy,” says Leguina in the video. Barranco was arrested in those same dungeons when it was the DGS for being a trade unionist, but “where there was repression and torture there is now a sign of democracy that must fill us with pride all the Democrats.”
«My father was imprisoned in this building in 1956, for being monarchical and defending the freedoms he wanted for Spain. I am sure that his pride would be to remember not that he had been imprisoned, but that the building today represents the greatest representation of democracy that we can have citizens, choosing our representatives through the polls, ”explains Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón.
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