The Malvinas hero domiciled in the islands and voting Sunday for a special table

In this spirit, and considering the country's historic claim against the United Nations for its sovereignty over this archipelago, veteran Osvaldo Hillar found the perfect legal suspension for the registry civil society may report it as follows: Argentine citizen domiciled in the Falkland Islands.

"It was mostly symbolic", expressed minuteuno.com Hillar, who has been living in Ushuaia since 1984 and who since Sunday will vote for the first time at an open table specially for him at rural school No. 6 "Entre Ríos", located 55 km from the fuegian capital.

"The Sandwich Islands, the Falklands, a part of Antarctica … they are our jurisdiction and it is our national territory and Ushuaia its capitalHillar, 55, said.

"I always had something to do in my head. After its adoption (Law 23,775 declared) as a province of Tierra del Fuego, and (in the text), it is stated that the Falkland Islands belong to that province, so that they can not object"explained Hillar.

Veteran He managed to settle in the Falkland Islands and as a registered address a street that he named in honor of his partner Eduardo Antonio VallejoCordovan like him with whom he did his military service in La Calera airborne artillery group 4 and with whom he was summoned to the islands on April 23, 1982.

Vallejo died between June 11 and June 12 after being injured by shrapnel from a naval bomb that exploded two feet away from him. In tribute, Hillar's paper indicates that his address is Eduardo A. Vallejo 103, Puerto Argentino.

"I'm wearing it with me," he says.

Far from wishing to deceive diplomacy from Buenos Aires to the UN, Hillar saw his initiative as an action "to open your eyes a little more" because "there are things to do to create a precedent".

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"We can not write on paper belonging to the national territory or the province of Tierra de Fuego and do nothing."Hillar, first ex-fighter settled in Ushuaia, fascinated by its proximity to the islands.

"I am very close, I have the same time and this city has changed a lot, but when I first came here, 35 years ago, he was very similar to Malvinas in terms of infrastructure. M & # 39; s caught"said the ex-fighter, who acknowledged that he would move to Puerto Argentino if the story had been different.

"I would go back to Malvinas, but I think that there are things that need to be organized through dialogue. I am against the loss of human lives: they are suffering families, they are suffering for generations to come, "said Hillar, although he currently rejects the idea of ​​visiting the archipelago as a tourist.

"I refuse to enter with a pbadport. It is to erase from the elbow what I wrote by hand many years agobut I am respectful of people who have left, "he said.

Hillar will vote this Sunday in Tierra de Fuego as an Argentine citizen living in the Falklands. Like him there are three other compatriotsincluding a woman married to an inhabitant of the islands. The other two would be neighbors of the province of Buenos Aires, as the veteran explained.

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"I would be the only person at the registration level at which a National Register of Voters has awarded a table here." The school calls Entre Ríos and is located in front of Lake Escondido. you have to cross the entire mountain range, but I will go as a warrant"he accepted.

"I take it as a very important precedent electoral justice calls the Falkland Islands as a district and he gave me a table for me as a citizen of the Malvinas, near Tolhuin, "he said about the city located 103 km from Ushuaia and several other Puerto Argentino.