Starting next year, 3rd year Secondary Education students in the Region of Murcia will have a new optional subject called ‘The Spanish Constitution and the European Union’, a subject that will serve to “know the constitutional values and the regulatory framework that “It has allowed us to live the most lasting and important period of stability and growth in our modern history,” as announced this Tuesday by the president of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, during his speech at the ‘Challenges and perspectives of the Constitution’ forum. , organized by LA VERDAD on the eve of the celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Magna Carta, in a day that took place in the Almudí palace in Murcia.
The meeting, which was inaugurated by the mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, and attended by nearly a hundred people, included the participation of the professor of Constitutional Law and co-director of the Chair of Good Government and Public Integrity of the University of Murcia (UMU), Germán Teruel, and the emeritus professor of Constitutional Law and emeritus magistrate of the Constitutional Court, Manuel Aragón, in a round table moderated by the director of LA VERDAD, Alberto Aguirre de Cárcer. The experts addressed the history, current situation and future challenges of the fundamental norm of the Spanish State.
The Community’s new measure to disseminate the values of the Constitution among secondary school students is framed, as López Miras explained, within the defense of the Magna Carta that the regional Executive considers key and that also opens the doors to judicial battles. “I will appeal to Justice any decision that violates the Constitution,” said the president, “and we are going to put emphasis on greater and better knowledge of our Magna Carta, as the support of our democracy and our freedom.”
New elective
“We are going to delve into what unites us, and not what separates us, encouraging the learning of constitutional values”
The head of the regional government asserted that the 45 years that have passed since the approval of the Constitution have given shape to “a history of continuous improvement” that has allowed the country to advance on the pillars of coexistence and respect for the values of dialogue. In this sense, the Community has decided to promote this new subject, which will have two hours of teaching per week to “contribute to the youngest people having all the necessary knowledge to be able to decide freely and have a greater democratic culture.” The new subject will also serve to help new generations learn about the role of the European Union and its institutions in the reality of Spain.
The Region of Murcia will become the first community to have a subject with specific mention and content on the Spanish Constitution, since only the Valencian Community has a similar subject that only addresses the norm tangentially within a content that revolves around civic, democratic and constitutional values.
The regional government is working with the expectation that this subject can be taught starting in the next school year 2024/2025, and plans to count on the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for the development of its curricular content, through the Professor of Constitutional Law of the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Carlos Vidal, and with the Chair of Constitutional Law of the UMU, with Professor Luis Gálvez.
The initiative complements other actions to promote knowledge of the Magna Carta in the educational field that are carried out in the Region. In this sense, the Ministry of Education has been urging, by means of a resolution, all educational centers to promote the carrying out of activities related to the Spanish Constitution in the celebration of December 6 for more than ten years. It also has two regional educational programs related to this subject: ‘The prosecutor with you’, which since the 21/22 academic year has reached nearly 10,000 students from 127 schools, and ‘Educating in Justice’, which is carried out since 2013, and that in the current academic year there are 128 registered centers to reach an estimated number of 48,000 students.
Amnesty
“Granting privileges to criminals and nullifying judicial resolutions goes against the free and democratic society in which I believe”
On the other hand, since 2019, the Community has organized together with the University of Murcia the ‘Constitutional Olympiad’, an activity in which 1,500 4th year ESO students have participated, according to Education sources. In addition, the Center for Teacher Training and Resources (CPR) includes specific training courses on constitutional matters for teachers in its catalog.
“I have lived in our country for 40 of the last 45 years and, therefore, I have not known anything other than our democratic values,” said López Miras. “That is why I value the rule of law, equality among Spaniards, the progress and peaceful coexistence that our Magna Carta has allowed us,” he said before pointing out the risks that the norm faces.
«In recent times, Spain is experiencing a complicated situation, which the newspaper that brings us together today – this Tuesday – reports on every day. A situation in which it is intended to subvert the model of coexistence that has made us an exemplary democracy during the last decades,” López Miras introduced in reference to the agreement between PSOE and Junts for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez that includes the amnesty for those involved. in the Catalan ‘procés’.
“In recent years we have witnessed a constant erosion of the Rule of Law, a discredit of institutions, a continuous attack on the rules of coexistence,” continued the leader of the regional Executive. «The extremists and those who want to destroy Spain have always been there. And they were and are a minority. But that minority today, incomprehensibly, is given a loudspeaker that distorts its authentic reality, and what is worse, it is given a power that does not belong to it by subjecting Spain to the global shame of agreeing with criminals and installing a mediator. international as arbiter of that infamous and outrageous pact.
Offensive in the courts
“The Community will appeal to court any decision that violates the Spanish Constitution”
For López Miras, the current situation “goes beyond a shameful amnesty law” and the holding of a referendum for the independence of Catalonia, who was convinced that the Government of the Nation and its partners “are going to begin, if “They haven’t done it already, to whitewash until we find him summoned.” “This is much more serious, if there can be anything more serious than all these breaches of the Constitution,” he said, “because, simply, there are those who have decided to ignore the law. Or imposing it on us depends on where you were born or what you voted for.”
Given the pact with Junts, the president anticipated, “we cannot remain silent. “I have already shown that I am not going to do it.” “For this reason,” he stated, “on this 45th anniversary of its approval we must be firmer than ever in its defense.”
López Miras recalled that during these years governed by the constitutional framework “there has been political confrontation, of course, and rivalry, and ideological differences, and very different points of view on how to address or solve Spain’s problems,” but all of them, he added , have been resolved on the “basis of cooperation, understanding and consensus”, a framework whose genesis he attributed to “what some now call the ’78 regime”, and whose role he claimed.
«Can the Constitution be modified? -he asked himself-. Of course. It has already been done twice. What cannot be done is not fulfilled. If you want to change, there is a procedure for it. A procedure that must be born from a consensus as broad as the support it had from all Spaniards. It is not, unfortunately, what we see », she lamented.
“Granting privileges to criminals, annulling judicial resolutions, disavowing our State Security forces and bodies, and even the King,” the president continued, “attacks the free and democratic society in which I believe. I assure you that this goes beyond a political confrontation, because behind the amnesty we already know that financing will be transferred to Catalonia via budgets, debt forgiveness and the establishment of a ‘Basque-style’ quota; that there will be first and second-class regions, that there will be two speeds and, unfortunately, we know where ours will be.
For this reason, he explained, “we are going to delve into what unites us, not what separates us.” «We will do so following the Youth Strategy 2019-2027 of the European Union, which seeks to ensure that young people are capable of facing the challenges facing our society, and the recommendation of the Council of Europe of May 22, 2018, encouraging lifelong learning, which in our case involves knowing constitutional values,” he stated.
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