He president Del Parliament, Josep Rull (Junts), has become the first politician who visits the after the Supreme Court sentenced in favor of the return of the Romanesque paintings of Sijena to the Aragonese monastery where they left in 1939. Profile a common position at a meeting that will predictably be held next week. In that situation, Rull has opted in the same room where the murals of the thirteenth and thirteenth century are exposed for “exhausting all legal means to save this heritage”, which “there are.”
Rull has appeared in the MNAC room with the president of the MNAC, Joan Oliveras, and its director, Pepe Serra, who have offered him brief explanations before the cameras before meeting in the offices of the center. The president of the Parliament, second authority of Catalonia, has assumed the MNAC’s speech and has advocated “prioritizing the technical and scientific criteria of preservation ahead of the rest of the circumstances”, defending that the heritage should not be endangered by a matter of ownership.
The MNAC technicians, in addition to other external international prestige whose reports were used in the trial, argue that only the transfer of the murals will be damaged in them, damage that could be aggravated if stability cannot be offered in the environmental factors of the enclosure that house them. through amparo resources before the Constitutional Court or presenting incidents of execution of judgment. He has refused to value the position held by the Generalitat.
Rull, who has assured that the meeting was previously scheduled, reinforces the voice of Junts, his party, in the crisis that the Supreme Judgment has generated within the MNAC. at the request of the Carles Puigdemont party that ended up being supported by PSC, Common and ERC.
That proactivity of Junts will remain in the Plenary of the Parliament that will be held this Wednesday. The parliamentary group plans two interpellations and a question about cultural heritage, so it is foreseeable that it focuses on the litigation open by the works of Sijena, which since the 1990s have maintained the same place of exposure in the MNAC.
Question of Board of Trustees
The spokeswoman of the Government, Sílvia Paneque, has insisted that the Generalitat will comply with the judicial decision regarding the murals, but recalled that the ultimate decision on the transfer does not correspond to it alone, because in the Board of Trustees of the MNAC there are also the City Council of Barcelona and the central government.
“There are some elements, technical reports that warn of the risk for the works themselves in their transfer. The sentence, in fact, question the MNAC as a whole and the Board of Trustees,” he recalled also responsible for the portfolio of territory in the Government.
Paneque has not wanted to assess a possible scenario of disobedience of a judicial mandate that, according to several experts, would imply putting the Romanesque murals at maximum risk. What corresponds now, has deepened, is to wait for a technical response from the museum and has asked for prudence. “The framework we have is a sentence that must be met, risks warned by different technical reports in this transfer and, therefore, in this framework these meetings of an absolutely technical nature move,” he added.
The president of the Government of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, will ask Salvador Illa on Friday, at the presidents conference, the collaboration of the Generalitat to be able to reintegrate the monastery of Sijena the wall paintings “quickly and safely”.
