New sit-in of the Generalitat to King Felipe VI in the delivery of dispatches to the new 496 sergeants of the Basic General Academy of Non-commissioned Officers (AGBS) of Talarn (Lleida), 462 men and 34 women, an act that the mayor has attended head of the Western Pyrenees Region of the Mossos d’Esquadra, Daniel Pérez.
The King has awarded the Military Merit Cross to number one of the XLVII Promotion of the NCO Scale, José Antonio García Martín, of Field Artillery, born in Rinconada de la Sierra (Salamanca).
For the first time in a delivery of dispatches attended by the King, the Generalitat has not awarded the best of the class. In 2019, the last year in which the delivery ceremony was held in Talarn (the pandemic prevented the celebration in 2020 and 2021), the delegate of the Government in the Alt Pirineu i Aran, Rosa Amorós (ERC) delivered, on behalf of the president of the Generaltiat, Quim Torra to number one the book Imago Cataloniae. Maps of Catalonia, Traces of History, the same one that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, had received.
It was the first time that the Generalitat delivered this book to the first of the academy’s promotion, in previous years the president of the Generalitat, a minister or a minister, delivered a reproduction of the sword of Jaume I.
As is traditional, the delivery of dispatches ended with an aperitif attended by Felipe VI, the new sergeants and their families, in addition to the civil and military positions
The King has been accompanied by the Government Delegate in Catalonia, Maria Eugènia Gay; the Deputy Government Delegate in Lleida, José Crespín, and the Mayor of Talarn, Alex García (Ara Talarn), among other civilian positions.
Councilors from Tremp have attended, although not the mayor, the Republican Pilar Cases, who in statements to La Vanguardia recalled that in 2017 the City Council agreed that the government team would not participate in the delivery of dispatches. Nor has the mayor of La Pobla de Segur, Marc Baró, also from ERC, explained that he has declined to attend.
In his speech, the director of the academy, José Luis Guerrero, told the new sergeants that the world in which they are going to develop their military career “has nothing to do with the one that existed three years ago”, when they started their formation.
“The coronavirus pandemic and a war on European soil are the terrible manifestation that we live in an environment characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity”, said the director of the academy.
