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The spokesman of the municipal group of Cambiemos Murcia, Nacho Tornel, has presented a motion to the plenary session next Thursday for the City Council to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Antonete Gálvez with an institutional act and an exhibition about his life and the historical stage ideals of the Cantonal Rebellion.

The initiative also proposes that the consolidation and restoration of the house of Gálvez in Torreagüera, as well as the protection of the San Blas orchard due to its high historical, environmental and landscape value, be implemented. by formations and associations. Torrena recalled that next June 29 will be celebrated two centuries of the birth of Antonete Gálvez, an "indispensable figure" of the history of Murcia for his "constant struggle in favor of regional autonomy within a republican system federal in the convulsive end of the nineteenth century, "which culminated in the Cantonal Rebellion of 1973, which was the protagonist.

"His life was marked by the defense of the oppressed, freedom and democracy, which led him many times to be condemned to death and exile, although he also became deputy in the Cortes and councilor of the City of Murcia ", explained the councilor of municipal training.

Gálvez led in this municipality the revolution of "La Gloriosa" in 1868, which entailed the exile of Isabel II to France and, with the help of followers of Beniaján and Torreagüera, opposed the continuation of the monarchical regime established in the Constitution of 1869, so he was sentenced to death by a military court.

To save his life, he hid in Mount Miravete and later fled to Algeria, until an amnesty decree allowed him to return to Torreagüera in 1870.

Two years later, before the death of thousands of young people who were forced to defend the colonies of the Spanish Empire, Gálvez returned to lead the revolution vindicating a federal republic and the abolition of military service, and tried again to take Murcia with the support of deserters and neighbors of the garden and the city.

The loss of this shot took him back to exile in Algeria, where he returned when there was the abdication of Amadeo I and the proclamation of the First Spanish Republic, and was elected deputy in the general elections to Cortes.

His defense of a federal constitution enlisted him in the canton of Cartagena, which was supported by the Navy, until January 11, 1874 the port city surrendered after numerous bombings.

Again Galvez had to flee, this time to Oran, to return a year later to the epidemic of cholera suffered by the Region of Murcia. On January 3, 1874 General Manuel Pavia gave a coup that ended with the First Republic and the Democratic Constitution of 1869, and meant the cutting of many of the rights and freedoms achieved in the previous stage, as well as the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy with Alfonso XII.

Antonete's wife died in 1887 and, despite remaining condemned to death, went to the funeral, at which time the Civil Guard expected to stop him.

The support of the town allowed him to flee and it will not be until 1891 when the justice released him and he was able to return to his house, being elected councilor of the Murcia City Council, from where he defended the agrarian interests of the huertanos and the organization of part of the catastrophe of the Santa Teresa flood.

Antonete died in 1898 in the shelter that was his house of the Garden of San Blas, and his burial became a multitudinous act of people who admired him, although he could not receive burial in the cemetery of Torreagüera until 50 years later due to the prohibition of the bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena to be buried in holy ground.

A century later, in 1998, the Consistory approved the declaration of Antonete as Favorite Son, accompanied by the appointment of a street of the city and a bust in Torreagüera.

Since then, associations and political groups have repeatedly requested the need to recover and protect the house and the San Blas garden as a tribute to their memory, but these requests "have been ignored until they reach a situation that can be considered shameful" .

Source: Cambiemos Murcia