April 14 All are not equal and that 1931 was the least equal of all because it proclaimed the Second English Republic, whose constitution that read in Article 1 that "Spain is a democratic republic of workers of all kinds, organized under a Freedom and Justice", which in 1931 is at least unique and even today it seems to light the sad centuries Shadowing Constitution adopted in 1978. Today is April 14, 2011, eighty years ago today that brief but intense experience of democracy in Spain, remember that flanked by two military dictators (the General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera from 1923 to 1931, and General Francisco Franco, between 1939 and 1975) and Civil War (1936-1939). We should also remember that the Law of Succession Headquarters State (1946) , provided that the successor of General Franco would be appointed by the dictator. Recall that in the summer of 1969, General Franco right to do so by that law of succession, he named as his successor as head of state to Don Juan Carlos de Borbon, skipping - that was his prerogative - the order of succession. Accordingly, the present constitutional monarchy, the English head of state, King Juan Carlos I, granted the head of state quoted by the express will of a dictator and says softly, voice reedy and thin mustache, who ruled Spain after Civil War and under the sign of repression.
December 6 1978, the English people voted in a referendum on constitutional text is currently in place. I voted as a bloc, without being able to decide for parties. This is relevant in that the Constitution of 1978 provided the state model as a parliamentary monarchy, social and democratic state of law, in which the English (English also) were the sovereign people. And while it is true that the vast majority who voted did so in favor - there were those who abstained at the time and now waving the Constitution like a sacred text - the fact remains that at that time, the sovereign people could not choose between monarchy and republic. There is no question, the referendum 1978 Constitution was not on the state model and consequently the sovereign people took action. Of course it is not debatable at that April 14, 1931 the sovereign people did not vote any referendum to establish the Republic, but went out with the tricolor flag to end the pachanga of the Restoration and the Circus dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. Then in December 1978, the sovereign people were not asked if I wanted republic or monarchy does not seem good enough excuse not to legitimize the second or to ensure that if asked about it had chosen the former.
is true that the Republic will not be the solution to all problems of Spain and the English (and English too), but it is also true that the monarchy has not been the solution to these problems. It is true that a model or the other, what matters is the democratic system, but it is also true that this system has been perverted to the point that today, unless proven otherwise, we live the reissue of the model Time dynastic parties of the Restoration, with the aggravating circumstance that between 1874 and 1923/31, everyone knew that this was a fraud and now think it is fair game. It is also true that progress in the democratization of our system is essential the citizenry, the sovereign people, is actually decides to take the responsibility of power as we did that April 14, 1931 and implement the Third English Republic, to the Constitution arising from this initiative, like that of 1931, a example to follow in equality, freedom, justice and democracy. It depends on us because it is our responsibility. And finally, although as you know a server is a communist, I want to make clear that the Republic does not belong to either the left or the right, but it is transversal at all fit the republican model of democracy and it is especially democracy.
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