Ortuella homenajea a la 1ª Corporación Municipal de la Republica - Pleno Extraor,14 de Abril de 2026

Photos of the event: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/fo... The Ortuella Town Council held an extraordinary plenary session yesterday to recognize the first municipal corporation formed in 1931, following the proclamation of the Republic. During the session, an institutional manifesto was approved, reaffirming the Council's commitment to historical memory and proceeding with the reparation, restoration, and recognition of those public officials who served on the Ortuella Corporation during that historical period. Following the ceremony, the council presented a memento to the descendants of those council members. Of the 17 council members, relatives of 15 attended from various parts of the Basque Country and Spain. Only two were absent, having gone into exile, and their relatives could not be contacted. With this initiative, the City Council recognizes the work carried out by those who comprised the municipal institution at a key moment in history. Below is the full text of the manifesto approved by the Ortuella City Council on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic, as an expression of institutional recognition of the first municipal corporation of 1931. Manifesto 95th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic Today, 95 years ago, the Second Republic was proclaimed in Spain. It was the result of the municipal elections in which the pro-Republican candidates were clearly victorious. Ortuella was not untouched by this movement, and in the elections held on April 12, 1931, the anti-monarchist parties received majority support. The result of those elections was six councilors from the Socialist Party: Gil Antolín Expósito Vicente Ortiz Leguina Cándido López Montero Tomás Andrés Barcina Nicomedes López Arce Lucio Gómez Espina Five councilors from the Radical Socialist Republican Party: Vicente Vicandi Madariaga Santiago Del Campo Vadillo Enrique Atozqui Cardo Guillermo Pardo López Anastasio Romero Sáez And three councilors from the Communist Party: Mariano Velázquez Arranz Santiago Fernández Soto Pedro Núñez Ríos Later, after the outbreak of the Civil War and in accordance with the agreements for the formation of a Basque Government of National Unity, presided over by Lehendakari José Antonio Aguirre, three more councilors from the Basque Nationalist Party joined them: Teodoro Alonso Rodrigo Ignacio Barrenengoa Fernández Alejandro Bastida Galdós https://www.ortuella.eus/es-ES/Notici...