The businesswoman and former deputy of UCD Mercedes Moll and the film director Pilar Távora, ‘El Cordobés’, ‘Siempre Así’, the Azvi group, the MAS group, the carnival fan Julio Pardo and the Unicaja Foundation, among the winners
On February 28, Andalusia Day, on the tables of the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville the singer from Almería David Bisbal will put the finishing touch to the delivery of the highest distinctions of the community by lending his voice to the Anthem of Andalusia. The Governing Council made official this Tuesday the award of Favorite Children to the man from Almería who celebrates two decades on stage and to the artist from Jerez whose birth is commemorating the first centenary.
The singer who launched his career since his participation in the first edition of ‘Operación Triunfo’ was highlighted as “an artist who has led Andalusia by flag, more than 80 awards for his musical career& rdquor ;.
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Of the “incomparable artist from Jerez whose birth is commemorating the first centenary”, Lola Flores, the Andalusian Government stressed that “her art crossed borders”. She “she” walked the Andalusian accent and the bata de cola halfway around the world. She was a brave woman who did not hesitate to address topics that in her day were taboo. Lola Flores is still very present in Andalusia today despite the fact that she died 30 years ago & rdquor ;, highlighted the spokesman for the Andalusian Government, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco.
The Manuel Clavero Arévalo Medal is for two women. will receive it Mercedes Moll de Miguel, businesswoman and former deputy of the UCD for Granada, one of the 27 women signatories of the Spanish Constitution and member of the Pre-autonomous Council of Andalusia in 1977. Adviser to the Ministers of Culture, Manuel Clavero Arévalo (1979) and of Health, Juan Rovira Tarazona (1980-1981), became the first woman in Andalusia to have served as a full member of the Chamber of Commerce (1986), national president of the Federation of Lottery Associations (1993-1997) and member of the Social Council from the University of Granada, at the proposal of the Andalusian Parliament, in 2014. In 2004 he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Granada Confederation of Entrepreneurs and Chamber of Commerce. Moll has the Order of Constitutional Merit for her work on the 1978 Constitution.
He will share the distinction with Pilar Tavora, of which the Government highlighted his “extraordinary career through audiovisual and theatrical production & rdquor; and he glossed her as a “feminist, Andalusian & rdquor; that she has known how to “maintain the legacy of her father & rdquor ;. Director, producer and screenwriter, she is one of the first women to create her own production company and is the daughter of playwright and director Salvador Távora. She was a member of the Andalusian Party and now a member of the Andalusian Left, a formation integrated with Adelante Andalucía, the party of Teresa Rodríguez.
A shortlist of 19 winners
In the category of Social Sciences and Letters will be distinguished Jose Maria Segovia Azcarate, president of the Real Sociedad Colombina Onubense, where he has been linked for more than 60 years, and journalist who created various media. He is also distinguished Pablo de Olavide Universitywhich has completed 25 years of history and trains thousands of young people each year on a campus with 11,000 students.
The painter Juan Valdesknown for his figurative painting, where he has stood out with images of flamenco, bullfighting, carnival and for his portraits, together with the recently deceased carnival author, Julio Pardo, who for only a few days has not been able to collect his distinction while alive, will be awarded the Andalusian Medal of Arts. Pardo has 16 carnival first prizes since the 80s and his choir ‘Los Martínez’ won the official Falla contest a few days ago.
The Andalusian Sports Medal will go to the Unicaja Foundationdays after the victory of the Malaga basketball club in the Copa del Rey, and for the Royal Mediterranean Maritime Club of Malagathe oldest in Spain, a benchmark in rowing, sailing, swimming, which is 150 years old.
The Attached Police Unitestablished in 1993, will be Human Values Medal, highlighting its protection of minors, the environment, the prevention and fight against forest fires, and the recent cybersecurity unit, the last unit created within the body.
The Medal of Solidarity and Concord will go to the Candido Nogales school in Jaenwhich makes a firm commitment to the comprehensive training of its students and the integration of people with disabilities.
businessmen
The category of company will distinguish the MAS group, a family business that was born in Seville in 1973 from the entrepreneurial initiative of four brothers who started a food business. In barely a decade, the firm went on to have a dozen stores and to carry out a major expansion in the food and hospitality sector. It is currently chaired by Vicente Martín.
will be decorated too Silvia PelaezJaen businesswoman at the helm of ‘Quesos y Besos’, awarded the World Cheese Award 2021 for the best cheese in the world for ‘Olavidia’.
The Medal for Research, Science and Health will go to the Andalusian University Institute of Geophysics and Prevention of Seismic Disasters from the University of Granada. He will receive this same recognition Ramiro Rivera Lopezcardiovascular surgeon and honorary academic of the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery of Seville.
Manuel Contreras Ramos, Honorary President of the Azvi Group, will be Medal for the Projection of Andalusia. Born in 1941, he has been at the helm of the Azvi Group for more than 58 years, a multinational that operates in the construction sector worldwide and currently has more than 2,300 workers worldwide and a turnover of around 400 million euros.
In this category of Projection of Andalusia also appears the Sevillian group ‘Siempre Así’, which was born in 1991 by the hand of a group of friends led by Rafael Almarcha, and the bullfighter Manuel Benitez ‘El Cordoba’. The Caliph of bullfighting, honored a few days ago by the University of Córdoba, reconciled with his son, Manuel Díaz, also a bullfighter, in that event where the president of the Junta de Andalucía participated, who now honors him.
Maria Angeles Cayuelapresident of the Andalusian Association of Women in the Fishing Sector, will be awarded the Medal of Environmental Merit together with Maria Sanchez RodriguezCordovan veterinarian and poet, who works with native breeds in danger of extinction, defending grazing and extensive livestock.