- José Vélez today celebrated his last act as delegate with the handing over of the crosses of the Order of Isabel the Catholic, plaque of honor of the Order of Civil Merit and plaques of honor of the Delegation of the Government
- “Sometimes it is necessary to remove from anonymity the work of those people whose social contribution, far from needing a notorious protagonism, has the merit of prudence and discretion and only needs the reward of the duty fulfilled,” he said in his speech.
- In his last act as head of the Delegation he indicated that the example given by the citizens of the Region of Murcia in these three very complicated years, "reaffirms me in the need to recover politics as that common space in which to raise and resolve issues of general interest"
April 4, 2023. José Vélez today celebrated his last act as government delegate with the handing over of the crosses of the Order of Isabel la Católica, plaque of honor of the Order of Civil Merit and plaques of honor of the Government Delegation in an act that has been held in the Almudi Palace of the city of Murcia.
“These three years have been particularly intense and particularly hard, but tremendously gratifying, in which I have been able to see that the exercise of the relevant services provided to citizens are not the exclusive heritage of institutions, officials or public officials, but that there is an extensive network of professionals whose quiet and selfless work, almost always alien to the focus and interest of information, is the indispensable complement to the initiatives developed by the public authorities,” he said in his speech after the award ceremony.
The government delegate has linked the work of the honorees with the spirit of the awards given. “The distinctions that we impose today constitute the well-deserved tribute of the Government of Spain to members of the Society who have distinguished themselves by leading, in their respective areas of relevant professional practice, services to the Society,” he added.
Civil Merit Order Honor Plate
Vélez has highlighted that the adventure begun by the Parrandboleros in 1998 to sing to the Murcian spring has resulted in a universal phenomenon that, mixing the faiths on both sides of the Atlantic, allows us to strengthen our ancestral historical and cultural ties as only music can do.
Crosses of Officer of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
He has also highlighted the work of Dr. Ricardo Robles as regional transplant coordinator. “A true eminence as a doctor, researcher, and popularizer whose work, together with the entire Surgery and Transplantation team of the Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital, has developed innovative techniques of extreme surgery, exported later to the whole world, that allow operating patients who previously had no possible treatment”
Regarding Francisco Legaz, he has valued his more than 40 years of trajectory, “which has the visionary character of those projects capable of revolutionizing a discipline, as happens in the attention of the needs of vulnerable people or in social difficulty from the defense and promotion of Human Rights.”
Government Delegation Honour Plates
Vélez has said that the merit of the Alhama Club of Football is not merely sporty for having placed regional football in the national elite, but that it must be valued for what this means in terms of influence and contribution to the practice and growth of regional women’s sport.
The delegate stressed that the fineness, irony, subtlety and mordacity of Pedro Sabiote’s cartoons does not distinguish between colors and ideology. That’s why “some days we have breakfast with him, and others, directly, he gives us breakfast” he joked.
He has finally extolled the character and the vital and social trajectory of Joaquín Sánchez Sánchez, who have forged a charismatic and indomitable personality, despite the fact that the priest is often forced to explain the thousands of labels that have endorsed him over the years.
“But its only label and flag is the defense, assistance, protection and help of the most vulnerable people and groups. A personality that, if it did not exist, would have to be invented, since few people in the Region of Murcia personify as he does the defense of the most disadvantaged” added Vélez.
In his farewell to the event, and as a delegate of the Government, Vélez has had a final recognition to all citizens of the Region. “For example, the patience, civic attitude, tolerance, understanding and commitment that have demonstrated this time in very complicated socio-political contexts and junctures. An example that reaffirms me in the need to recover politics as that common space in which to raise and resolve issues of general interest. We will continue to work on it,” he concluded.
Decorated ratio
Cross of Officer of the Order of Isabel La Católica
- Francisco Legaz Cervantes, founder and president of the Diagram Foundation
- Ricardo Robles Campos, Regional Transplant Coordinator
Order of Civil Merit Honor Plate
Los Parrandboleros
Government Delegation Honor Plates:
- Joaquín Sánchez Sánchez, priest
- Pedro Sabiote Conesa, graphic humorist
- Alhama Women's Football Club