Gijón (EFE).- The municipal government of Gijón, formed by Foro, PP and Vox, has attended this Thursday the traditional religious ceremony of the festival of San Pedro, patron saint of the city, in an act that recovers the institutional presence in the Church, which had been canceled during the previous mandate of the PSOE and IU.
The mayoress Carmen Moriyón, accompanied by the councilors Jesús Martínez Salvador (Foro), Ángela Pumariega (PP) and Mrs. Álvarez Rouco (VOX) occupied the first row of seats in the church of San Pedro during the mass in honor of the patron saint of Gijón and participated in the blessing of the waters of the Cantabrian Sea.
The second city to have a secular regulation
During the previous mandate, Gijón became the second city in Spain, after RIvas-Vaciamadrid, which regulated the separation of political institutions from religious denominations, in a regulation approved by the plenary session last May that is currently in the review period. public information and that Vox has announced that it will be repealed.
Parallel to the religious celebration, a group of people summoned by the Asturias Laica organization, which was the promoter of the secularism regulation, gathered a few meters from the Church in protest and called for the resignation of the mayoress shouting “Moriyón resignation ”.
The parish priest of San Pedro, Javier Gómez Cuesta, has expressed “satisfaction” for the institutional presence, which he considered as the “return to normality” and advocated recovering “harmony” avoiding falling into “extremist ideologies.” EFE