The Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez, inaugurates today, at 5 p.m., the Azaña Colloquiums, which are held between 18 and 30 November at the Ateneo de Madrid.

Athenaeum of Madrid, Madrid

These colloquiums are part of the events programmed by the Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, through the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the death of Manuel Azaña in exile.

Fernando Martínez will also participate in a meeting that will revolve around Azaña’s relationship with the Athenaeum. The last president of the Second Republic was closely linked to this institution for more than three decades. He was secretary, depositary and president, a position that he held when he became part of the Government of the Second Republic and that came to coincide with the presidency of the Council of Ministers until May 1932.

In this colloquium, the Secretary of State will be accompanied by Eduardo Huertas Vázquez, member of the Institute of Madrid Studies and Athenian; Pedro López Arriba and Carlos García Álvarez, president and vice-president, respectively, of the Legal Sciences and Politics Section of the Ateneo.

This round table will continue on November 23 with the meeting in which the intellectual Azaña will be discussed and on November 25, the day in which the colloquium will focus on the facet of Azaña as a politician and statesman.

This interesting cycle of dialogues on the figure of Azaña will be closed on November 30 at an event that will be presided over by the First Vice-President and Minister of Democratic Memory, Carmen Calvo, who will be accompanied by the President of the Ateneo, Juan Armindo Hernández.