For all those who pride themselves on being democrats regardless of their political color, the 1978 Constitution has a fundamental meaning. It has been and continues to be, after 40 years, the framework of coexistence par excellence of the Spanish people.
Its promulgation, the result of the consensus of the transition, has meant a before and after in terms of separation of powers and guarantee of fundamental rights in our society. It has also brought with it the limitation to the exercise of power and a mandate to political action in order to achieve objectives as important as the right to housing, the protection of the family or the environment, to give some examples. Its achievement, as is obvious, can no longer fall exclusively on the norm itself but on the success of the policies that pursue this goal, but this is another story.
But, above all, the Constitution is a fully valid instrument at the service of citizens to resolve, according to law, the challenges facing Spanish society in the 21st century.
It is not at all an outdated norm, much less, it is our supreme norm fully applicable and that contains the fundamental principles and values that must govern our coexistence. Needless to say that the same: "freedom, justice, equality and political pluralism", are fully in force and are by no means outdated values.
Our Magna Carta enjoys good health, has a vocation of permanence and is fully applicable to our current reality and serves as the ultimate guarantee to all those threats that involve a violation of the values it defends.
Simply say that my obligation as a politician is to comply with it and, based on the convictions defended by the Popular Party, within the scope of political pluralism that our Constitution protects, to do everything in my power to achieve all those objectives that the Constitution has set for us for 40 years, such as the effective achievement of the right to work, the protection of health or the elderly or the achievement of a more just and egalitarian society in a framework of free development of personality.
Astrid Pérez, president of the PP of Lanzarote