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For the last time, the Córdoba City Council has opened the doors to Julio Anguita, the first mayor to have the city in democracy. The institution that he respected until exhaustion, this Saturday pays him the last tribute; a sad goodbye marked by the health situation that Spain is going through and which has led the City Council of the capital to make a burning chapel only for the family of the former politician.

After 6:00 p.m., the hearse carrying the mortal remains of the former IU secretary general entered Calle Capitulares, where the current mayor, José María Bellido, and the other six councilmen he had had were waiting for him at the Consistory's doors. Córdoba since the beginning of democracy, Herminio Trigo, Manuel Pérez, Rafael Merino, Rosa Aguilar, José Antonio Nieto and Isabel Ambrosio. The only absence, that of Anguita's former politician and partymate, Andrés Ocaña, who died in 2017, also as a result of a heart attack.

Anguita has been received to the applause of those who have approached Capitulars to dismiss him; very few in the face of the population crowd that has always moved the Malaga, who defended his ideals with coherence and honesty. Upon these virtues, upon his arrival at the City Hall, ex-mayor Rafael Merino made mention of these virtues, located in the antipodes of Anguita's ideological imaginary. Visibly moved, he conveyed his "pain as a Cordovan and as a politician" and thanked all the advice he received from Anguita when he was appointed mayor. "He was a person who fought for Córdoba and who put his name very high," he said, also asking for a tribute with all the honors when the health situation permits.

The Mayor of Córdoba, José María Bellido (i), gives condolences to Ana Anguita Parrado (C), daughter of Julio Anguita. Rafael MelladoEFE

From this Saturday until tomorrow at 12:00, Julio Anguita's coffin, devoid of religious symbols and covered with the communist flag, will occupy the Plenary Hall, accompanied and clothed by his wife, Agustina Martín Caño, and their children, among which was Ana Anguita Parrado, sister of Julio Anguita Parrado, journalist for EL MUNDO and assassinated in the Iraq War. The relatives have also received the affection of all the municipal groups and the provincial coordinator of the IU in Córdoba -and also a councilor-, Pedro García, who has highlighted "the legacy, humanism and the way of doing politics" that Anguita leaves behind. .

Julio Anguita had been retired from the front line of politics for 20 years, but he continued doing politics because he believed in another world. He continued to battle, although not as belligerently, on platforms such as the Civic Front or the Prometheus Collective. Because he liked to listen, reason and argue. He also continued to support his pupils, Antonio Maillo and Alberto Garzón, at rallies in Córdoba, as happened in the June 2016 elections, where the polls predicted good results for the left. His words were foreboding in the Plaza de la Juventud in the Cordovan neighborhood of La Fuensanta "Temperance, temperance, don't trust the polls." So it was. The Unidos Podemos coalition got only 45 deputies.

Because Julio Anguita was that. With a temperate but direct and accurate speech, strange in the political scene that Spain has suffered for years, moved by outdated slogans and loaded with verbiage. Julio Anguita was extemporaneous. For this reason and for his coherent and honest speech, politicians of all ideologies have felt his loss this Saturday, a feeling that is felt in the general population. Because respect belongs to everyone, but affection and admiration are the heritage of a lucky few.

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