The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, has made a staunch defense of the Constitution at the commemorative event for Magna Carta Day held this Wednesday at the Palau de les Aules of the Diputació of Castelló. In his speech - more institutional than the previous speeches by the mayor of Castellón, Begoña Carrasco, and the president of the provincial institution, Marta Barrachina -, Mazón has vindicated the validity of the text approved 45 years ago: “Spain does not have a problem with its Constitution, but quite the opposite.”
The head of the Consell has pointed out that the legal framework endorsed by the Spanish has allowed stability for 45 years and the alternation of diverse political projects. “Everything has fit together without any seam of the Constitution jumping,” he pointed out. For this reason, he has rejected speeches that seek to rewrite the past. "The great problems of the State are not problems of the functioning of the constitutional machinery," he insisted.
With the PP warning of the alleged threats to the Magna Carta, the Valencian president has asked those present to reread the text, as he understands that "it could not be written better 45 years later." He has read article 14, which advocates the equality of Spaniards before the law, in a veiled criticism of the Amnesty Law. Likewise, he has claimed water with article 128 or has rejected the economic privileges of some autonomy (without naming it) that article 138 censures. “The principles of equality and solidarity of the Constitution remain in force,” he has indicated.
There has been no lack of reading article 2 on the indissoluble unity of the Spanish Nation and the right to autonomy. Unity and autonomy have allowed, according to Mazón, "the best decades in our history for the Valencian Community and the whole of Spain."
"The Constitution is not an abstract document, from the past, from another generation, that has to be commemorated like an old book, that has to be rewritten. It is a living document. Fully valid," the popular leader emphasized.
During the celebration of the event, the president of the Generalitat presented the distinction for the Defense of Constitutional Rights and Freedoms to the deputies and senators elected in the provinces of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia who approved the text of the Spanish Constitution. Former deputy Emerit Bono took the floor on behalf of the honorees, highlighting at the end of his speech the "key" role played by King Juan Carlos I. In fact, he ended his speech with a "Visca la Constitució i gràcies to King Joan Carles" which has been highly applauded by the public.
Harsher have been the speeches of the mayor of Castellón, Begoña Carrasco, and the president of the Castellón Provincial Council, Marta Barrachina. The first has defended the need to "protect an unbreakable legal order that cannot be a bargaining chip", in reference to Pedro Sánchez's agreement with the independentists; while the second has pointed out that "we are in a unique and historic moment" because she understands that the Constitution has never been "as threatened as now."
