As a "brother" of the Spanish Constitution, since it is not in vain that we share the same father, Jordi Solé Tura, I have a special sensitivity regarding the acts of recognition or aggression that our Magna Carta inevitably suffers every year. I lived with astonishment the attempts of the right to take possession of a symbol that they had not voted for, while the left seemed to dwarf itself when it came to claiming it with pride. A text, it should not be forgotten, that represented a leap into hyperspace in the definition of rights and freedoms and in the proposal for a decentralized territorial organization of the state only three years after the death of the dictator. That was a risky exercise in tightrope walking that could only be led by a brave generation that knew how to seat a communist and a former Francoist minister at the same table and that did not act based on the metrics on social networks because, fortunately, they did not yet exist.
Last week we held a small commemorative event at the headquarters of a Barcelona district organized by two hard-working councilors, one from Cs and the other from the PSC. The thing had the scent of the underground days. This time the guards were there to protect us from the usual busters who luckily didn't show up this time. The times they Are a changing. And it is that in Catalonia, despite the fact that it was the autonomous community that most massively supported the constitutional referendum, tributes to the Magna Carta have been made in recent years almost in secret, trapped as we are in this eternal "yes, but no", a very pujolist frame of mind by the way.
The PSC is the only left-wing party that claims it, yes, but in recent years only in its internal conclaves. We don't even talk about the commons: it seems incredible that he was unable to claim his decisive role in that presentation through my father, then a prominent PSUC militant. It should be reminded that his other soul, the podemita, changed his slogans and attacks on the "Regime of 78" to end up brandishing the Constitution and its progressive articles, a true bulwark against the rise of anti-democratic forces.
If we do not manage to make peace with our Constitution, there will be no way to reform it properly, which is the debate in which we should be immersed now and not in impossible fabrications about what could or should have been done during the Transition. If in Catalonia it took 30 and 31 years respectively to award the Creu de Sant Jordi to Miquel Roca Junyent and my father, it may take another 30 to publicly recognize them. Barcelona has 13 years of broken promises. Little can be expected from the current Generalitat, but I am satisfied that next year, the 45th anniversary of the Magna Carta, we can celebrate it in Parliament or in the Saló de Cent de l'Ajuntament in an act open to the public, a sign that the Respect and common sense will once again have overcome fear.
