A revolution that must be tested in the field. Holy Week of the year 2023 will go down in history as that of the great reform. The Council of Brotherhoods has conducted some changes over the several days aimed at improving the flow of guilds and improving security in different crossings and areas with a massive presence of people. The outcome is mixed, with Days reaching a qualified-majority deal, leaving some fraternities with considerable anger; and others where the Council decided directly as no agreement was reached. This is the case of Holy Thursday, the only day that obtained the grade A: the ideal day. For its part, on Palm Sunday, Holy Wednesday and early in the morning, it will be necessary to verify whether the measures adopted give the desired result. For this, it will be essential to respect the timetables. Otherwise, everything will be wet paper.
Dawn was the day that required the most attention due to the problems that have been dragging on for years. The brotherhoods could not reach an agreement and it was the Council that had to intervene. He did it surgically. Avoiding a great revolution that in other days he had no qualms about undertaking. They weighed the history and the weight of the fraternities, no doubt. The Gordian knot in the Laraña area was solved a few years ago with the change of itinerary of La Macarena, attention was focused on the intersection of Esperanza de Triana and El Gran Poder on the San Pablo axis. The solution chosen, as this journal advanced, was to lengthen the routes. This decision was seen by most as the lesser evil. In any case, it will be essential that the two corporations coordinate their route so that the guiding cross of the Great Power reaches the Puerta de Triana when the entire procession of Hope is already in Zaragoza street.
The changes to Palm Sunday, for their part, will allow to decongest the Plaza del Triunfo and Trajano and the area of Cuesta del Rosario, Francos and El Salvador. Here the brotherhoods have been further separated, although La Hiniesta y la Cena and San Roque y la Amargura will run in a row.
The Buon Fine will have to go to the Postigo next Holy Wednesday after the approved reform, with the frontal opposition of various brotherhoods, of this day. The solution, classified B, removes the confraternity of San Lorenzo from the very crowded and complicated Orfila and partially relieves the congestion on the axis between Cuesta del Bacalao and Alfalfa. On the contrary, it will be necessary to make the times coincide so that the Seven Words and the Christ of Burgos do not meet on the Avenue. The latter fraternity asked the City Council not to validate the agreement due to the security problems that allegedly occurred around its canonical headquarters during its departure.
The configuration of Maundy Thursday was decided by the superior council after the brotherhoods failed to reach an agreement. With the changes applied, the day can be described as a bicoca. The grade given is A. The ideal day. With the new order, the crossings between the Passion and the Exaltation in El Salvador and the Passion and the Valley in the Bank of Spain are eliminated. The alternation in the outputs of the Duomo is total. Furthermore, the area of the Germans, the Franks and El Salvador is decongested, allowing for greater fluidity in the flow of brotherhoods. To achieve this goal, the Valley is the great sacrifice. You have to go back to the Annunciation through the Postigo.
