The regional government hides behind the “legal nature” of the aerodrome, owned by the autonomous community, to avoid the refusal of the Ministry
The regional government will not wait beyond next Thursday to fulfill one of its great objectives of this legislature, at least on a symbolic level: to put the name of the Murcian engineer Juan de la Cierva at the International Airport of the Region of Murcia. The new name of the Corvera aerodrome will be approved in the Governing Council next week, as announced this Saturday by the regional president, Fernando López Miras, on his Twitter account. A decision that collides head-on with the latest report from the Ministry of Transport on the matter, which less than a year ago stopped the wishes of the Government of López Miras and the Regional Assembly by indicating, based on a study by the emeritus professor of History of the Universidad Complutense Ángel Viñas, that the name of the airport with the name of Juan de la Cierva contravened the Law of Historical Memory.
The regional government is now returning to the fray by publishing two of its own reports, commissioned at the time by the professor of Political History at the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Roberto Villa, and the professor of Modern History at the University of Murcia, Francisco Javier Guillamón, who they expose theses radically different from those of Viñas. In summary, they conclude that the decision made by the Government of Pedro Sánchez was “unfounded” because the name of Juan de la Cierva does not exalt the “military uprising”, the “Civil War” or the “repression of the dictatorship”, as he defended. Vines.
In addition, and in a document to which LA VERDAD has had access, the regional government relies on the arguments of the Legal Service of the Ministry of Development and Infrastructure, which support the regional power of the change in the “legal nature of the airport, whose ownership corresponds to the Autonomous Community. In this same report, the Legal Development Services explain that “the Ministry can change the name of Barajas Airport by Adolfo Suárez, for example, and if it can do so, it is because it is an airport managed by an entity under its direct dependence ( AENA). However, he continues, at the International Airport of the Region of Murcia “the General State Administration does not enjoy the powers that it has at any other airport in the territory, since here AENA is a concessionaire but not an entity, as far as airport refers under its direct dependence.
“Non-binding value judgement”
But the arguments of the regional government do not stop there. According to the same report, “there is a deep aporia in thinking that the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia can promote the construction of an airport but cannot name it.”
Likewise, regarding the dismissal resolution of the central government “determined solely by the notes of Professor Viñas provided by the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory”, according to the same report, the Legal Service of the Ministry states that the aforementioned resolution “has no reason in a strict legal sense” because it is “a value judgement, but it is not mandatory or binding”. On the other hand, “the materialization of this new name is respectful and consistent with the powers and state regulations on airports.” Now it remains to be seen the possible reaction of the central government to this decision of the Community.
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