The Government Delegate in Extremadura, Francisco Alejandro Mendoza Sánchez, has urged young people to “build a free, fair, supportive and sustainable future, respectful of culture, diversity and the environment. In short, a future as the parents of our Constitution would think.”
Mendoza has made these statements in the act that the Delegation of the Government has dedicated to the XLV Anniversary of the approval of the Constitution by the Spanish people. An act that has been focused on Article 45 of the Magna Carta that includes the defense and protection of the environment.
The event began with a lecture by José María Corrales, Senior Lecturer at UEX, responsible for the UNESCO-UEx Chair in Sustainable Development, President of the Governing Board of the Biosphere Reserve of the River Tajo Tejo International and member of the Scientific Committee of the National Parks Network and the National Scientific Committee of the Biosphere Reserves Network of Spain, among other responsibilities. The conference was especially aimed at a group of students of 2nd Course of the Higher Degree Training Cycle in Forest and Natural Environment Management, from the IES Nuestra Señora de Botoa in Badajoz.
The exhibition “The other fight against climate change”, prepared by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, has also been presented.
In his speech, the government delegate highlighted the values of the Spanish Constitution: “The spirit of consensus of the transition was embodied and very well embodied in our Magna Carta. That spirit of consensus means accepting the difference and the different was that of consensus, and consensus means accepting the different. There is nothing further from our Constitution than trying to impose the ideas of a few on others. Unfortunately, we have been too long, with too much noise, for those who do not accept the different: be it the political adversary, the immigrant, the one who has a different sexual orientation or simply, be women. There is nothing further from the spirit of the Constitution than intransigence and imposition.”
“I would like,” said Mendoza, addressing the young people, “to get out of here today convinced that the Constitution is the rule that guarantees your future, your rights and your obligations; because, as the constitutionalist Gregorio Pez Barba pointed out, ‘the ultimate support of the 1978 Constitution is a democratic power and a democratic society.’