He was a councilor of the Murcia City Council for 16 years and president of the Electoral Committee of the Popular Party
Antonio Sánchez Carrillo, one of the most powerful militants of the Popular Party in the Region of Murcia for several decades, died this Wednesday in Murcia at the age of 71. ‘Super councilor’ of Development and Transport in several governments of Mayor Miguel Ángel Cámara, he was for two decades the president of the PP Electoral Committee that chose the candidates in various electoral processes. The burning chapel has been installed in the Jesús de Murcia funeral home.
A builder and promoter by profession since the 1970s, like his father, for 16 years he was a councilor in the Murcia City Council, four in the opposition and 12 at the head of the Department of Development and Transport and Institutional Relations. His participation in politics was not without controversy, as he was related to developers and contractors of urban operations, although he was never prosecuted. The opposition called on different occasions for his resignation, without success.
He always felt like a man committed to Murcia and its neighbors, willing to work and make the problems of Murcia his own and give them solutions, as the PP demanded of its militants.
Under his management at the head of Development, one of his workhorses was the improvement of circulation in the city, and he promoted the construction of the Atalayas and Plaza de Castilla tunnels, and countless new roads, infrastructures and services in neighborhoods and districts . He was responsible for remodeling the surroundings of the Murcia Cathedral, a Moneo project.
With an affable and folksy character, he won at short distances due to his great sense of humor, his common sense and his ability to solve problems. He was Nazarene of the Year and Town Crier of Holy Week in Murcia, he was a corporal and mayordomo of different steps of the archconfraternity of the Precious Blood of Christ of Barrio del Carmen de Murcia, Los Coloraos, and was a key figure in the development of the crowded Fiesta de las Cuadrillas y Pelotas de Patiño, his small homeland, where he was always considered just another neighbor.