- The government delegate in Cantabria participated this Friday in the continuous reading of the Constitution of 1978 organized in the Hall of the Delegation and in which authorities, students of the IES Santa Clara and public employees took part
The government delegate in Cantabria, Pedro Casares, has called for “respect for freedoms, rights, social justice, equality and opportunities” in the Spanish Constitution of 1978, which he considered to be “more valid than ever”.
This has been extolled by Casares this Friday before the beginning of the continuous reading of the articulate of the Magna Carta in the Hall of the Government Delegation. An initiative to read the 169 articles of the Constitution on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the same, which is commemorated this Saturday, December 6, and in which authorities, students of the IES Santa Clara de Santander and public employees have taken part.
Casares, who was in charge of reading the first article, highlighted that the Constitution represented many advances for Spain, with which it began its current democracy after the dictatorship and opened “the stage of greater progress, well-being and development of our country”.
For this reason, the representative of the State has pointed out that the 47th anniversary of the Magna Carta is “an important day to reclaim what entailed” the constitutional text and the “parents” of the Constitution.
“But we must also reclaim an entire country, an entire people, millions of Spaniards, who took a courageous step, a definitive step towards democracy and who in those years of transition understood the historic moment that the country was going through and who took a firm step to advance in rights in freedoms and opportunities,” added Casares.
In addition, the government delegate has said that the 1978 Constitution is “more valid than ever” and, therefore, the Delegation has invited students from IES Santa Clara to read it, who are “young people who are going to live in the future, have the whole future ahead of them and, 50 years after democracy, it is very important that they know what this Constitution meant”.
Finally, he urged society to reaffirm the Constitution “at this time when everything is in question, when we also see that rights, freedoms and opportunities are at stake.”
“It is time to reaffirm our 1978 Constitution and to say loud and clear that the greatest and best dictatorship there is is that of respect for freedoms, rights, social justice, equality and opportunities,” he concluded.
