Antonio Membrilla will not take office as director of the Lorca Board of Trustees after the resignation of the poet's niece

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Updated Tuesday, March 5, 2024-12:48

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Antonio Membrilla has just announced that he will not take office as director of the Federico García Lorca Board of Trustees given "the current situation generated" in relation to his appointment.

This was stated to Europa Press by Antonio Membrilla (PP) after this morning Laura García Lorca, the poet's grandniece, presented her resignation as a member of the Federico García Lorca Board of Trustees after hearing some statements from Antonio Membrilla (PP), on historical memory, which he referred to in 2020 through social networks as "historical memez."

Along with this, seven associations linked to the Historical Memory of the province of Granada;

five Lorca municipalities;

Two unions and three political parties in Granada have called for this Wednesday, starting at 5:00 p.m., a

protest rally at the Lorquianos Studies Center in Fuente Vaqueros

to ask the president of the Provincial Council to dismiss Antonio Membrilla.

"As a member of the Federico García Lorca Board of Trustees of the Granada Provincial Council, having read the statements of the new director published in the press, I consider myself obliged to present my resignation," says the text directed by Laura García-Lorca, the poet's niece, to the president of the Provincial Council, Francisco Rodríguez, to whom Efe has had access.

García-Lorca has announced his resignation after the Granada Provincial Council elected Antonio Membrilla, a graduate in Hispanic Philology from the University of Granada and

spokesperson for the PP in the Armilla City Council, as the new director of the Lorca Board of Trustees.

The Official Gazette of the Province (BOP) published last Friday his appointment as head of the Board of Trustees, the entity responsible for the Lorca Birthplace Museum and the Lorca Studies Center.

His

suitability for the position had already been questioned

by memorial associations such as Truth, Justice and Reparation, the CGT union and the PSOE, which have accused Membrilla of mocking historical memory for several publications from 2020 already removed from his online profile. social

Membrilla, who takes office this Tuesday, has published three messages on that same social network in which, "in response to the commotion" of an old tweet, he explains his position regarding democratic memory, which he referred to in a text

as "memez hysterical."

According to Membrilla, he only commented and quoted a tweet to criticize the fact that visibility is given to the victims of a single front and has clarified that at no time does he criticize the Historical Memory Law, after which he apologized

in case anyone has been offended

or has misinterpreted your messages.

Free designation procedure

The appointment of the position has been made through a free appointment procedure called last October and open to officials or work personnel with experience in administrative management or cultural services.

His election as director of the Board of Trustees continues to provoke criticism, and this Wednesday he will be the subject of a protest rally at the Fuente Vaqueros Lorca Studies Center in which seven associations linked to the Historical Memory of the province of Granada, five Lorca municipalities, two unions and three political parties (PSOE, IU and Podemos), as reported by the city council of this municipality.

The organizers have started

collecting signatures against Membrilla's appointment

through the Change.org platform, which in a few days has exceeded 2,000 signatures.

The promoters maintain that Membrilla's appointment "responds solely to political criteria and

damages the image of our most universal poet."

"We are talking about a councilor from the Popular Party who has no accredited training, experience or relationship with the figure of Federico, and who also has in his 'résumé' the dubious merit of having repeatedly mocked the Historical Memory Law," they point out. the organizing associations, organizations and town councils, who therefore ask the president of the Provincial Council to reconsider his decision.

The mayor of Fuente Vaqueros, José Manuel Molino, encourages all Granada residents to join the rally, in which a manifesto against Membrilla's appointment will be read.