This Wednesday, the plenary session of the Senate gave its final ‘yes’ to the ELA lawwhich will improve care for people with this and other complex and irreversible diseases, and with which all parliamentary groups have shown that, with will, they can put aside their differences to pursue “good” politics.
This is the message that, in the presence of representatives of patient associations, the spokespersons for the different political forces in the Senate have launched, which have endorsed with 259 votes the text they received two weeks ago from Congress, where they achieved the same consensus.
“Here I hear insults and continuous disrespect many days, but today we are a single voiceand that is something wonderful”, celebrated the socialist parliamentarian diagnosed with ALS Juan Ramón Amores, who this Wednesday will go to bed “happy” for the consensus reached with the ALS law, which this Thursday could be published in the BOE, according to what has been reported some senators.
Amores has applauded the rule as a victory for the associations, which have focused on this disease and have brought out of invisibility the people who received the lethal diagnosis and who, like him, “They don’t see beyond today“.
“There is a song by Leiva that says: ‘Do it as if you no longer have anything at stake. Do it as if you were going to die tomorrow’. That is my philosophy of life and I guarantee that I try to fulfill it every day that passes,” acknowledged the mayor of La Roda (Albacete) before warning that he will not rest until the law is brought to every corner of the country.
His main message has been, however, to the 9,000 people who since 2015the year in which a doctor told him that he had ALS, have heard those same words: “Today the stars will shine brighter than ever because they will be called like them,” he concluded, paraphrasing, this time, the theme 571-/9A by Arde Bogotá.
“It is appreciated that in such a turbulent legislature Let us manage to reach an agreement on laws as important, necessary and relevant as this one,” stressed the socialist Marta Arocha, who trusts that it can contribute to alleviating “some of the pain of patients and their families.”
Now, The Government and communities have “an enormous job ahead”although he has shown his conviction that they will do so “from empathy and collaboration, putting themselves at the service of society.”
The popular Alicia García has highlighted that what the Senate has done is “much bigger than passing a law.” “Today we demonstrate that politics is at the service of people“, which is the policy that “the majority of Spaniards want and need.”
“It is the result that we have put aside our political differences to prioritize what is truly important, the care and attention of people,” emphasized the senator, who noted that with its publication “tomorrow” in the BOE, The Government “will have no excuses” to provide aid to patients.
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