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A Valencian lawyer elected new Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Spain.

Palma, 13 March .- The Valencian lawyer Oscar de Alfonso Ortega, 42, was today elected new Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Spain, in the assembly that this organization was held in Palma.

With the election of Oscar de Alfonso, is married with two daughters, Spanish Masonry runs over the next four years, opening a new era of "openness, settlement and normalization" of Masonry in Spain, according, sto credits, to the Grand Lodge of Spain .

The Grand Lodge of Spain is the leading Spanish Masons obedience, has more than 150 lodges and 2,300 members and is the only Spanish recognized by major international Masonic Lodges and the Grand Lodge of England, the Grand Lodge of France and more than one Obedience hundred other countries.

After, sto credits, his election in the assembly of Palma, in which participated more than one hundred Masons, although the vote exercised their right to vote 700 brothers, the Grand Master Masons said that Spaniards have made a bet "strong" for "a new stage marked by a generational change."

The appointment of Oscar de Alfonso is a "historical" event, according to Masonic, sto credits, obedience, since it is one of the youngest grandmasters in the modern history of Masonry in Spain.

In these elections, which have developed simultaneously in Palma and the headquarters of the Masonic in eight provinces that form the Grand Lodge of Spain, have also been elected as the new Baron Carlos and Manuel Torres Grand Treasurer and Grand Orator of the Great Lodge of Spain.

The previous Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, Jose Carretero, which for re-election, has claimed these days in Palma that the Masons are a "democratic society", hence these "free" elections.

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