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This Saturday took place the conference in tribute to the mayor Isidro Pérez San José, entitled "The reformist biennium and the Popular University", by the official chronicler of the city, Francisco José Franco Fernández, an event that was held at the Palace Hall, presided over by the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, along with one of Pérez San José's sons, Bernard Pérez de Chandiard.

During the conference, Franco Fernández, biographer of the character, highlighted the spirit and trajectory of this mayor, architect among others of the creation of the Popular University during the Second Republic.

Born in Cartagena in 1902, in a modest family, he studied medicine in Barcelona, ​​graduating at age 22 and exercising it in his hometown, where he aligned himself with the reformist policies promoted by the doctors also Cartagena Manuel Mas Gilabert, Luis Calandre, Antonio Ros and Casimiro Bonmatí.

He was elected councilor in 1931 and was part of successive economic commissions aimed at combating unemployment caused by the 1929 crisis.

In 1932 he was named mayor of Cartagena, the most important of his mandate being the organization of the commemoration of the first anniversary of the proclamation of the Second Republic, which were celebrated in April and had the presence of Niceto Alcalá Zamora, Indalecio Prieto and Marcelino Domingo.

The passage through the city of the latter was the definitive impulse to the great cultural and educational work of Carmen Conde and Antonio Oliver, the Popular University, which was launched during his tenure.

The other challenges of his political task were the beginning of the construction of the Taibilla Canal (as president of the Pro Aguas Commission), the culmination of the Casas Baratas project and the articulation of a stable republican majority at the municipal level.

In 1936, at the outbreak of war, somewhat removed from local political life, decided to enroll in the so-called Red Socorro, where he served as a doctor in Valencia and Cartagena until the spring of 1939.

After the war, he embarked like so many others to Bizerte, where he suffered multiple calamities until he was able to settle as a doctor in Tunisia, where he died in 1977.

The act was also attended by the government delegate, Diego Conesa, the ediles of the government team Mercedes García, David Martínez and Manuel Mora, and the councilor of the Ana Rama corporation.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena