\ The president has assured that the Government will use all the means at its disposal to firmly defend compliance with the constitutional framework.

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Marga Prohens

\ Prohens insisted that the Constitution is and must continue to be the main guide and roadmap to face present and future challenges.

The president of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens, has defended today that the Constitution “perfectly combines the recognition of the unique reality of the Balearic Islands with the ambitious common project that Spain represents”. The president referred to the articles that consecrate the state of the autonomies, the recognition of compensating the insularity or the co-official languages, to point out that “the new Government of the Balearic Islands is not only being comfortable and identified with the Constitution but also being responsible and guarantor of respect for the constitutional framework”.

Prohens made this statement in her speech on the occasion of Constitution Day, which was celebrated with the institutional act at the Almudaina Palace and with which she advanced that “the Government will resort to all the means available to the regional executive to defend firmly, from the channels provided by the constitutional framework, its compliance, if it is threatened”.

Thus, in her speech, the President celebrated the anniversary of the Constitution, now 45 years ago, pointing out that “it arose from an exemplary transition and from the conviction of a whole generation that we had to move forward, that we had to overcome hatred and divisions, with consensus and dialogue, with respect for plurality and the difference of visions”. For this reason, she rejected that “they try to build walls between citizens, walls that seek social division based on ideology, walls that seek to invalidate the opinion of anyone who does not accept the official story, walls that seek to simplify reality, that seek to break bridges, walls that come to bury the harmony and coexistence born in the transition”.

In her speech, the president mentioned some articles of the Constitution, such as 137 and 143, which recognize the autonomous communities; articles 156 and 157, which provide for their financial autonomy; article 138, which requires guaranteeing the equality of all citizens, especially taking into account the circumstances of the insular fact; as well as article 3, which states that Castilian is the common language throughout the State, but that the other languages will also be official in the respective autonomous communities, as is the case of the Islands, in accordance with the provisions of the Statute.

Prohens has defended “the full validity of the Constitution”, but has claimed the need to make “a lexical change, a specific change to Article 49, to talk about people with disabilities and not something else, to move towards an inclusive society”.

To conclude the speech, the President of the Government of the Balearic Islands reiterated that “the Constitution is and must continue to be our main guide and roadmap to meet the present and future challenges of the Balearic Islands and Spain”.