75th Legislature installs Committee for the Bicentennial of the First Constituent Congress of Michoacán – MonitorExpresso.com

Morelia, Michoacán.- The 75th State Legislature installed and took oath of office the Organizing Committee for the Celebration of the Bicentennial of the First Constituent Congress of the State, as well as the Promulgation of the Constitution of the Free Federated State of Michoacán.
The Committee is made up of the deputies of the Political Coordination Board (Jucopu): Anabet Franco Carrizales, president; J. Jesús Hernández Peña, Mónica Lariza Pérez Campos, J. Reyes Galindo Pedraza, Marco Polo Aguirre Chávez, Guadalupe Díaz Chagolla, Margarita López Pérez, Luz María García García, Óscar Escobar Ledesma and Laura Ivonne Pantoja Abascal, president of the Board of Directors of the State Congress.
Also part of it is the deputy María de la Luz Núñez Ramos, representing the Committee on Culture and Arts; the Secretary of Parliamentary Services, Raymundo Arreola Ortega and the Secretary of Administration and Finance of the Legislative Branch, Rocío Pineda Gochi.
In this context, Deputy Anabet Franco Carrizales recalled that Michoacán is the cradle of the thought of the liberators and heroes of Mexico, such as Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and Don José María Morelos y Pavón.
And he promised that, under that premise, with the work and events that are carried out “we will honor the memory, not only of those legislators who gave us our own identity, but of all Michoacans who with their struggle made possible the dream of forming one of the states of this free and sovereign nation,” he said.
For her part, Deputy Laura Ivonne Pantoja Abascal, president of the Board of Directors of the State Congress, explained that April 6 will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution of the Free and Federated State of Michoacán and with it, the installation of the First Constituent Assembly of our State.
She said she was sure that, from the Organizing Committee, “we will take to the people of Michoacán the message of defense of our powers to preserve the essential pillars of democracy, which are governability and the representation of society.”
He said that, on the shoulders of those who make up this Committee, as well as each member of the Legislature, “falls the responsibility and the task of preserving and celebrating the history that defines us as a society.”
Some of the planned actions and activities that will be carried out are under the coordination of this Committee, they are: Session or Solemn Act on Saturday, April 6; a series of lectures by historians from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH) and the Colegio de Michoacán (Colmich); the publication of a commemorative book, the placement of a commemorative plaque in the Legislative Palace and a program of presentations of historical books on the state of Michoacán and the formation and evolution of its three branches, among other events.

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