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The government delegate in Murcia, Rafael González Tovar, has participated this morning in a discussion with students of 2nd year of the Institute "Juan Carlos I", Murcia, on the Spanish Constitution the invitation of the director of the Center, Peter James, who has made the presentation of the act.
González Tovar exposed to students of History of Spain from the center its assessment of the development process of the Spanish Constitution and the characteristics of our Constitution.
"At times like this, happy anniversary, we can and we must think how we got here, what is the result of this joint effort of the Spanish and what challenges we must continue to take in the future, to advance our democratic system attuned to the social developments of our country, "he pointed out.
The delegate stressed that the young should be aware of what rights we now understand as basic and unquestionable exercise could not be done just over thirty years.
"Speak freely, participate in politics, vote, give equal treatment to men and women have rights, despite being made by all as obvious were the major challenges of the fathers of the Constitution of 1978," recalled Gonzalez Tovar.
"Essentially," he explained, "we have gone from mere subjects to full citizens."
The delegate said that we enjoy a living Constitution, "which, despite the time elapsed, continues to create laws that respond to social needs."
In this sense, González Tovar has highlighted some of the laws which have made progress in equal rights for all Spanish, including quoted the General Health Law, which extended health care to all residents in our country or education laws that established the compulsory education to age 16.
Also cited other laws explicitly recent appearance of which is particularly proud, as the Law on Equality between men and women, the law of dependency and the law against gender violence, to protect the rights of the neediest people or discrimination.
For Gonzalez Tovar the democratic period coincides with the period of greatest economic development in the history of Spain.
"Today we enjoy-has exposed" a more just and caring society that is fully able to meet the challenges inherent in a mature and democratic society, fully integrated into Europe. "
Finally, Gonzalez Tovar wanted to emphasize that the Constitution is a collective success of Spanish society, "a success that is rooted in the constitutional text, which managed to find a framework of values and rights which all citizens can be recognized, that also known to provide exciting targets in the scope of which we now all committed, effective from equal protection of our environment and a balanced territorial development, and who knew, above all, stand as a Constitution for all, without exclusions. "
Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia
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