In the 2012 May, former president of the Generalitat de Catalunya between 1980 and 2003, Jordi Pujol, visited Denia to offer a conference on the Mediterranean corridor organized by the Institute Ignasi Villalonga, Jovema and Cedma.
At that time, and in compliance with the protocol, the City Council offered an official reception Pujol. The then mayor, Ana Kringe, Received the former president in his office and invited him to sign, as long as there comes a personality in the book of honor of the city.
Now, three and a half years after this visit and when in the mouth of all the case of 3% in which is involved Pujol and part of his family, several ciduadanos request your honor book signing Denia is removed.
The proposal has been launched from the Facebook group The City of Dénia, also referring to the newly made decision to eliminate the Catholic symbols of the chapel of the Residence of Elders. "Since we have entered the game of removing images of virgins and saints, from this humble group, we propose to eliminate the signature of Jordi Pujol in the book of honor of the City of Dénia," proposes the promoter of this request in the group.
This proposal has not left anyone indifferent: from those who fully agree with it and ask for the elimination of their signature in the book of honor to those who understand that it is part of the story and that the presumption of innocence is in force until now. the one that has a sentence.
The truth is that the signing of Pujol in the book is part of the official events of an official visit to the city. In recent years they have also signed the book the former director general of UNESCO, Federico Mayor Zaragoza; the current president of the council, José Císcar; former president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Alberto Fabra; Álvaro, Salva and Herrera, team players who represented Dénia pilots at the Circuit Bancaixa in 2012; or the Franciscan Enrique Oltra Perales when he was named Adoptive Son of Dénia this year.
But please! We will compare to Don Federico Mayor Zaragoza and other distinguished visitors to Mr Puyol who is said to be guided solely by a particular interest? Of course that firm must be removed! The sooner the better!!