Javier Lambán and the shade that remains

My years of learning before years of experience.

Shared moments that today are colored by inevitable nostalgia.

Return to my memory on January 14, 2020, a local holiday, Voting Day, a day deeply rooted in Ejea de los Caballeros.

Late that day, Javier experienced one of those moments that justify public life: a meeting of comrades, representatives of local, provincial and Aragonese politics of all sensitive places in the Teatro de la Villa full of borders, where the applause never stopped and the recognition was unanimous. In life, he was born as his Villa favoritea title which particularly moved her and which she shared with her pride before long.

We are looking forward to the second part El Quixotefrom where Miguel de Cervantes he writes: “One of the things which must give satisfaction to a virtuous and eminent man is to live, to pass with good name the tongues of the people, both learned and printed”.

This simple aphorism of the name, because Javier incarnated it, is rarely found among our contemporaries, this combination of intelligence, determination and public vocation.

“Lamban knew and loved his people, represented the best of our learning and fostered a perfect trajectory without losing the memory of his roots.”

The Ayuntamiento of Ejea thus appreciates this “good name”, not only in honor of the “virtuous man”, but also to enrich the collective memory of the villa also built by those who served it with excellence.

It was an honor for me to mention her, but also a moral obligation: as I knew and loved her people, she represented the best of our learning. and fostered a perfect trajectory without ever losing memory of its roots.

More to your professional, intellectual and human merits, let us think deeply ejeanidad. The word I warmed when I am warm, in the heart of the 9th century commemoration from the incorporation of Ejea into the Kingdom of Aragon, which was moved to action in 2010.

In your words: “Ejeanidad It is a way of being, a complete love for history, cultural and artistic heritage, traditions and love for others. But also a fan of modernity and progress. A dim view of the future. Moreover, it is a decisive assumption of the civic values ​​of the humanist and Enlightenment tradition and the defense of the common values ​​of the rest of Spanish and European culture“.

The political trajectory was broad and fertile, with those who could hold their own from authentic leadership. Because he was Javier Lambán: a leader capable of motivation, movement and emotion. Someone who opened paths, gained horizons and was able to transform desafíos into shared opportunities.

From a young age I drew attention to manners. He excelled as a brilliant student at school and at the institute. Later, the doctor of history defended his doctoral thesis, Agrarian reform in Aragon and the Second Republic, at the Paraninfo University of Zaragoza in 2014, in an act you have the privilege of assisting.

About the latest work, presented as a title later in CAEE, a space that pulsates the same in Ejea during its stage before DPZ and what he took from his name was an idea which renewed itself and adapted itself to this academic work in the closing phase of his life.

In the absence is sought, lately desirable and dueling. But the memory will not remain hidden in sadness. It will also remain in the gratitude, respect and shared memory felt by the community.

Because of politics, when you practice honestlydeja huella When he lives with compromise, he turns into history.

And there are names like Javier Lambán Montañés who need to hold on. Not for the power they boasted down to the service they offered.

You think about it in books. Tu huella, en la tierra.

Thank you, Javier.

*** Teresa Ladrero Parral is Mayor of Ejea de los Caballeros, Vice President of the Provincial Diputación of Zaragoza and General Secretary of the PSOE of Zaragoza.