The brotherhoods voted, they elected Manuel Murillo as president and now he has to begin the work, which has four years ahead of him, but which starts with some challenges that must be faced, and which almost always appear in the program with which he won the vote … .
One of the main issues is inherited from the previous mandate and is that the Grouping of Brotherhoods has new statutes and subsequent regulations. The previous governing board made a proposal to reform the current ones that did not obtain a sufficient majority to be approved in October 2023 and Murillo plans new statutes that respond to the new reality of the brotherhoods.
New ones have to go with them regulations that, especially during the penitential period, they establish criteria for the way in which the new brotherhoods have to join the official career, something that was attempted in the previous draft.
Together with this, the new Group has the challenge of beginning to fit the emerging brotherhoods into the official race and into the days of the Easterwhich are beginning to run out of space. The Presentation to the People attempted to be added to the common route in 2024, but after months there was no agreement to fit it into a day and in the end it had to be postponed until next year.
There are seven processions at vespers, whether parish groups, brotherhoods or full-fledged brotherhoods, not always grouped, and one more working on its parish. No more arrivals in the official race are expected in the short term, but it would be time to establish the way in which they will have to do it in the future, in the presence and number of brothers who form their team. courtship. Now they just have to group together and apply to be in the box.
Early morning and Holy Saturday
And if more brotherhoods arrive, they will need space or perhaps more days. The project of a Early morning It has not continued to advance, but there is no shortage of those who are in favor of opening on Holy Saturday to give more space in days with almost always six brotherhoods in the afternoon, with the problems of schedule and routes that they can bring with them, especially around the official race. .
The first thing is expensive because those who want to leave would do so with some financial help. For what could be the last afternoon, the lack of tradition weighs against it, but the previous meetings of the Group have not seen it with a bad eye.
For the first time, the Association of Brotherhoods has a brotherhood based outside the urban area of the city. Is the Pains of Alcoleawhich was admitted just a few days ago on the third attempt and by a not very wide margin. Will corporations in Santa Cruz follow the example? El Higueron? It should not be ruled out because some have already expressed it, and it will now be up to the Group to find its place and decide what they can aspire to and how they are equal to those who are going to the official race.
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