César Girón is from Granada, he cannot avoid that nor does he want to. “My father is more from Granada than the Virgin of Angustias”, he says… but that does not make him Andalusian. Caesar is one of thousands of people from Granada who do not believe in Andalusia and who dream of a referendum that will allow them to leave a region that does not represent them.
“One day they came and said that my father was a certain Blas Infante, whom we had never heard of,” César justifies. He neither believes in a hymn that he had to learn nor in a green, white and green flag that has nothing to do with the one he defends: a white flag with a grenade which is increasingly visible on the streets of Granada.
His speech has been touring historical associations in the province for years. “It is a very old initiative”, tells NIUS. Now they are trying to give it a greater boost by designing a strategy that allows them to spread their message to more people, relying on research on the region’s past and legal analysis on its future options.
Several citizens with the flag of Granada.CEDED
In that fight is César, a lawyer from the legal services of the Junta de Andalucía, which does not prevent him from fighting to find the formula that will allow him to remove Granada from the region. “I have always defended this,” he explains to NIUS, “even during the 34 years that I have been of socialist”. Now César Girón is part of the Together for Granada party, a platform that in the last general elections received 9,300 votes in the province from Granada.
Granadexit
Behind this claim is the history of a province that was a Nasrid kingdom, a Christian kingdom and a region until it became part of Andalusia. “The history of the Andalusian nation is a lie,” insists César, who places the second part of the complaint about his initiative in grievance: “Seville takes everything”.
For César, Granada lives subject to “a great Andalusia ruled by Seville”, when throughout its history the people of Granada have always looked the other way, with a greater connection with the provinces of Jaén or Almería, which precisely voted against of autonomy in the Andalusian referendum of 1980.
“The people here She doesn’t feel Andalusian, she feels from Granada“, says César who is convinced that one day his province will cease to be part of Andalusia. “This will pass,” he assures, but if it does not happen, “nothing will happen either,” he tells NIUS, “we will settle for being the light that tell everyone that this was not like that.”
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2023-10-03 23:55:58
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