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The Plenary has approved, with the votes in favor of the Municipal Group and Citizens and the opposition of the Municipal Socialist Group, Let's change Murcia and now Murcia, to urge the Delegation of the Government of Spain in the Region of Murcia "to carry out the necessary steps before the Ministry of Development to approve, immediately and without further delay, the name of the International Airport of the Region of Murcia Juan de la Cierva, as approved by the Regional Assembly of Murcia.

In addition, the motion includes "demanding from the Government of Spain similar diligence to the one that was made clear in December when, after the meeting of the Council of Ministers in Catalonia, it communicated its decision to give the name of Josep Tarradellas to the Barcelona airport. case, on his own initiative, since nobody had asked for it ".

According to the text, "the opening of the International Airport has been a milestone that, nevertheless, is not complete, since it has not been given the name of Juan de la Cierva that the Murcians decided we wanted to give it. agreement adopted by the Regional Assembly in July 2017 which, unfortunately, did not have the support of the PSOE or Podemos, in a clear demonstration of its tortuous vision of history when trying to apply the Law of Historical Memory despite not having a single paper that confirms the inventor's relationship with Franco. "

"The truth is that Juan de la Cierva never met Franco, nor resided in Spain since 1926, nor was he ever interested in politics, despite being his father minister in several cabinets during the reign of Alfonso XIII. support or fight the Franco regime, since he died in London in December 1936 in a plane crash when traveling as a passenger, "he recalled in the motion.

"Fortunately, he did have time to invent the autogyro, whose first flight he made on January 17, 1923. He was a world-class engineer, who enjoys recognition and admiration throughout the world."

Source: PP Murcia