The delegate of the Government of Spain in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, has claimed “the unity of the nine valleys” as “necessary” and “essential” to “look to the future”.
Quiñones said so this Friday in his speech at the Day of the Institutions event held in Puente San Miguel and in which the president of Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga, the president of the regional parliament, María José González Revuelta, and the mayor of Reocín, Pablo Diestro, also spoke; an event in which the choreographer and dancer Javier ‘Poty’ Castillo has been recognized as Merino Mayor of the Nine Valleys.
During the event, held in front of the Casa de Juntas de Puente San Miguel in La Robleda Park, Quiñones appealed to the “unity” reached by the nine valleys in Puente San Miguel on July 28, 1778 “to find in the dialogue between different positions”.
The delegate of the Government has highlighted in this act “we are representatives of all ideologies, of all sectors of society, of all the identities that represent the best Cantabria, which is the one that claims its plurality, its diversity, its authenticity and its cultures and traditions that make it unique”.
Quiñones has appealed to “the permanent vocation of dialogue, agreement and understanding between the different things that coexisted more than 300 years ago in the valleys of this land, uniting its destiny and its future” and has considered that this “learning” is the one that has to serve us to “draw the horizon”.
“Nothing is more important for Spain and Cantabria than to meet again, to reach consensus and to work together thinking about the future of our sons and daughters and the country we want to leave them. Nothing is won since the crispation and the permanent confrontation. No one understands that, despite our ideas, our different points of view, we are not able to agree on fundamental issues,” he said.
Therefore, the delegate of the Government has expressed the opinion that in this 2023 “our task is not to look back to question the achievements achieved or the achievements achieved, it is not time to turn back the advances, but to look forward and do so with determination, responsibility, rigor and also with humility and respect towards those who think differently”.
And, to this end, the representative of the State in the Autonomous Community has extended her hand to all the institutions of Cantabria “to find us in what is important, to agree what is always good for the impulse and progress of this land and the well-being of its people”.
“Let us always argue and disagree with what we do not agree with, because that is the only way to respect the institutions we represent and, above all, the citizens who have given us their trust so that we can represent them in them,” he added.
And he ended by calling on the institutional and political representatives to work to strengthen “the trust and respect of the citizens” for the institutions. “It will be the best guarantee of our action. Thinking about the common good, dedicating ourselves with care to achieve it, will be the best way to respect ourselves as well,” he concluded.