Portal de Lorca
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Speech Francisco Jodar:
Partners of the Municipal Corporation, Ladies and Gentlemen of Lorca town councilors over the past thirty years, my friends, good evening.
On April 3, 1979, the Lorca not go to the polls with the illusion of choice, many for the first time, who governed the destinies of our municipality for the next years.
It was a historic day, a day to remember, a day when the citizens put our hopes in a sealed envelope hidden inside an enthusiastic vote, a firm commitment for the future, plurality and freedom.
Thirty years have passed since then, thirty years in which we are accustomed to vote, thirty years in which tens of Lorca of various political stripes have taken a step forward by going to an election with the sole purpose of working for and Lorca The Lorca, for your city, your neighbors, your neighborhoods and districts.
Today, when approaching the celebration of Constitution Day, the City Council want to join this festival a heartfelt tribute to those who have had the honor of representing the city of Lorca and defend the interests of all who live here.
This is a tribute to those who need ever decided they could help to enlarge their town and worked for the common goals that had to be made by our ancient people to be a better place to live.
Like that December 6, 1978, as this April 3, 1979, is the spirit of harmony and cooperation that brings us here now.
In the same sense of duty wearing the Spanish Transition, the same desire faithful embroidered on the soul, the city of Lorca want to make today a collective thanks to one hundred forty men and women who one day received the trust of its neighbors through the ballot box to manage the resources of Sun City
You can not imagine the pride and admiration that I feel as the current Mayor of Lorca, seeing all the people assembled before me in the task of working closely with our citizens, representing them, and making each of us from our convictions, our ideas and projects, but combining all efforts, with the common goal of welfare and progress of this land that welcomes us.
We've had during this event the opportunity to hear the wise voices of some of the protagonists of these three decades of democracy in Lorca.
Now I not only want to talk about the happy stage in our history that we honor today, but taking a look to the future that starts from the experience of recent years, some years must always be a benchmark for today and for the day tomorrow, and that must be present permanently in our memories, to act on the noble principles of those who both made by Lorca, those mayors and councilors who always appreciate your dedication.
Today we live in difficult times.
The difficult situation we are facing around the country has generated a sense of distrust of politicians, which is fueled by the black flame of management utilized.
Today, the politicians have become a target in which many people throw their desperation.
What do you want me to say?
It's normal.
This crisis has long since ceased to be economic to acquire social and ideological hues also has hands and feet shackled to many citizens.
Under the shadow of disappointment has seized that people normally restrained due to the uncertainty of what will happen tomorrow, vent their anger against politicians.
And it is true that sometimes they are right, for what we deceive.
But in most cases these criticisms are the result of irrationality.
All who have participated in the management of our town from an elected position, as all you are honored today, dear friends, know that politics alone is not easy, but often it hurts.
Everyone from the responsibility that Lorca give us, we draw the ideal plan of what Lorca need, how we can create the Lorca friendly, accessible and that all we want.
But these plans are always obstacles in their path, obstacles that sometimes we can save and sometimes us back or even have to wait for a new opportunity to bring to completion.
And when we firmly believed in these goals and see how, for problems of any kind can not be done, it hurts us and makes us suffer.
Perhaps that pain for things we can not make the main frustration is a politician during his tenure.
But there are many more bad things are in this world.
The little time we have to spend on the family is one of the most important, is that political life is nourished by hard work, no schedules and no breaks, especially in this Lorca, wide and large as a few, which leads to steal more and more of the time we wanted to dedicate to our own.
But if we do not hand over to the full to the task for which our neighbors have chosen us, we would be in breach of our obligations and, more importantly, we would be failing the citizens of a flagrant, would fail, ultimately.
Also when we became the target of unjustified criticism, a criticism which arises from ignorance and nonsense, the political task is a task becomes stark.
Because objectively assess and critique what is wrong is reasonable and is even an exercise in compromise with the reality that surrounds us.
However, when the attack has no motivation and it is only intended to hurt the way it is, politics is covered in clothing inappropriate for what should be the art of governing for the benefit of society, the benefit of all .
However, how hard it is sometimes politics, for many troubles that one can receive, the benefits are always much larger.
When that moment arrives in which the conviction that we are doing well becomes the way to guide our steps when we know that we're providing Lorca what you need, what will make it easy and pleasant life of Lorca , that which will stand in essential for the development of the city, that satisfaction can not be compared with anything, and as you know yourselves, it is necessary that inner conviction, in the exercise of government as in the noble task opposition because it ultimately comes from our inner desire to serve.
And it is to generate a benefit to this town we love, actively participate in enhancing the virtues of Lorca and enjoys its own right, should be our goal as municipal managers, should be the end for which we work, and when we reach it, it's all worth it, all troubles will be forgotten and all times have not been spent, but invested in the good of all Lorca.
Because municipal management is not an exercise to remain forever in a chair, not feel superior or that people respect us and greet us when we go down the street, it is apparent that at the end of the month we get the salary.
Policy management, and especially the city, can not ever be a work to the gallery or the art of representing what actually is not.
Anyone who thinks that this is politics, may never be useful to Lorca, who believes that this is politics, do not bother to submit to the public.
To collaborate with the wider objectives of the municipality in order to be valuable for Lorca Lorca and we can only undertake municipal management from the dedicated and obsessive.
Because management is to think only in the common good, regardless of other considerations to be random or superficial.
Management is to think solely on the needs of others and, from there, to act in the most convenient way for the collective benefit, but often not the most popular procedure that more affection or awaken among citizens.
But our actions can never be governed by the free smile, but for efficiency and accountability.
Today, when we made this award to all those who have served on various municipal corporations Lorca since 3 April 1979, we recognize those who believe they could be valuable for Lorca, who have put their efforts and dedication to work in the collective greatness of our town.
To all of them, all of you, thanks you now the city of Lorca on the merits rendered, for devoting your time and your effort, your dreams and your vigilance, for participating in democracy growth in these streets that we welcome and keep us.
During these 30 years, all who have taken part in political life have had ups and downs, successes and failures, have experienced the euphoria and frustration, popularity and loneliness, have experienced stages of joy and sadness.
But you have always done what was in your power to achieve the greatness of Lorca.
Which you have dedicated staff in municipal tasks.
When you have erred, it was by mistake and never on purpose, and have always tried to rectify that error in the best way possible.
Since those first 25 councilors José López Fuentes as mayor, until the corporation that now do I have the honor to chair, all we have built the Town Hall we have always wanted the best for our Lorca.
We have delivered fully, knowing that we are custodians of Lorca confidence, knowing that, through their votes, we have given up their hope and encouragement, knowing that every four years, we must give strict account our management to the sovereign Lorca sets the bar so high and demanding manifests, as only they can do great peoples.
Because we can never govern without the people, and that we all know.
In the words of more than 30 years José López Fuentes during his inauguration as mayor, we have to work counting "with the participation of all Lorca, because otherwise our efforts would be futile."
Thirty years later we have to continue to maintain that spirit while maintaining the inherent goal of working for all who live in this great City.
Three decades after Lorca's first democratic mayor took office, we can not forget that only in the spirit of those early men who attended at City Hall, this is the same spirit that gave birth to the democratic transition, can be useful for Lorca.
Our responsibility as a municipal representatives must be founded on the principles of this process that led to the great social contract of the Spanish and the predominance of consensus, agreement and harmony as an effective means of management.
So we have to be the voice and hands of those who decide to put their trust in us, his hope and vote and act according to its dictates.
We have to solve their problems and we never set ourselves up on that problem.
We must always remember that governing power is not ours, which is a loan that Lorca we do, because it is theirs, and always remember the mistakes we belong to us, while the successes, let us never forget, will always children of all citizens of Lorca.
Because we are only and exclusively to serve, to ensure the development and peaceful coexistence of all.
If we meet with honesty and efficiency in these tasks, perhaps we may be worthy of the citizens of Lorca.
Now, precisely, you have to let me speak on behalf of those same citizens to make the sincere gratitude that brings us together today, that thanks to the protagonists of political life during the past thirty years.
To all, thanks for services rendered, thanks for believing in a better Lorca, thanks for putting the service of your town and your neighbors.
This is also thanks to all those council members who, unfortunately, no longer among us, beginning with Rex Vincent, who left us a few days ago, and with all others, who will never forget, and who always remember its greatest virtues.
We will also continue forever recalling those early years of democracy, remembering not to forget the spirit of national reconciliation that made possible the miracle of the Transition.
Continue to remind that everything will be better if we work and live together, if we kept believing that since the settlement can be more useful to our society.
With these values in front and with the memory of everything good the last thirty years, we will build the all Lorca Lorca dream.
Because it is our duty to do so, and because we want to.
But for this, we will continue forever with the experience of all men and women whom we honor today, those who worked for the good of all citizens, and those who will always be in debt.
Why work by Lorca, always worth and worth it.
Thank you very much to all and good night.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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