OBJECTIVE: TO CHARGE THE SAN JUAN PARTY

For two years, since the tide came to the City Council, the Association of Meigas and everything related to the HOGUERAS was outlawed and even, sometimes, insulted and vexed as if it were an enemy to be beat at all costs.

Not only did they suppress all types of economic aid despite celebrating almost one hundred cultural and popular events each year, all of them free of charge, this card can not be presented by anyone in our city, even those who, for whatever reason , Benefit from the contributions received from the municipal coffers to which we all contribute.

Of course they prohibited that in the Hall of Sessions of the Municipal Palace, the house of all, was held, as had been done since the time of Javier Losada as Mayor, the Ceremony of proclamation and imposition of Bands to the Meigas, even though other Entities of the City, all of them with much less implantation than the HOGUERAS if they continue celebrating them.

Also, the Teatro Rosalía Castro, owned by La Coruña, was again given away free of charge, as is done with some other related entity and even for the political staging of the group that presides over the Town Hall, regardless of whether it is high performances Cultural value and participative, besides that its entrance is gratuitous.

At the height of this persecution, both in 2016 and 2017, expressly prohibited, with the ambiguous and cynical phrase "negative valuation", the celebration of the traditional Night da Queima, created by the Commission Promotora de The Bonfires of San Juan in 1970 and that, until the arrival of the tide, there had never been any break-in for its celebration. In this case neglecting the fact that the celebration of these acts had zero cost for the city.

At one point we even commented on the idea of ​​eliminating the burning of the allegorical Bonfire at Riazor; we do not know the reason very well but suspect it; In the same way some came to value the possibility of prohibiting the burning of bonfires on the beaches, citing the negative environmental impact. That is to say, load everything related to the party of San Juan that worked so hard to raise the top positions in the ranking of the fiestas of Spain.

Since these people arrived at María Pita, the investment in the San Juan festival, the only one that holds the title of international tourist interest, has been decreasing. Not only did it not appear in FITUR as it had been doing from years ago as one of the main bets of the city face to the catchment of tourist currents but even its publicity with general character is practically null and non-existent.

It is therefore a question of eliminating from the context of the city everything related to the HOGUERAS , something like erasing them from the history of the city, turning the page as it has been tried to do with many other things that are not to the liking of these people and Of others of similar ideological cut. In order to do so, they make use of gross excuses like those that "at last the San Juan belongs to all", "finally the San Juan is not protected", when what little is done has as its origin the City Council in its pretension, Those who govern it, to "protect everything" and "change everything".

The night of San Juan de La Coruña is, at least it was, the night of the Coruñeses, the night par excellence. To all this they contributed from the parades of the afternoon that invaded the city, until the burning of a great session of fireworks from the Roundabout of Miramar, passing by the colorful route of those more than one hundred motorcycles that accompanied the flame of Fire San Juan; The Cavalcade with the floats of the Meigas and, of course, a macro verbena in the esplanade of the Palace of Sports with some musical number of trunk. All that has passed into history.

If La Coruna possessed an appointment par excellence, a party that occupied the cover in those television news of the night that emitted some Television networks; Which was the object of attention in magazines and the international press, which caused that high levels of hotel occupancy were reached, that has become past, being now relegated, like everything that has been done in this city for two years, to the most Absolute of mediocrity.

It has not mattered to them that it has been insisted that the acts of A Noite da Queima do not imply any cost for the city, nor that nothing is going to be asked in return, the only thing that matters is that it has to be charged no matter what. Motive? We ignore it even if we suspect it.

As it has been said, less bad that from time to time to La Coruña mention it in the meteorological part because otherwise it would seem that it had been swallowed the Atlantic. What a pity!