In recent times, due to the Catalan process, some parties have begun to call themselves constitutionalists, in a very self-serving way, placing the rest outside the constitutional limits. They intend to appropriate the Constitution.
Both the PP and the PSOE, and the crutch of both, Ciutadans, who always have the invaluable support of the Canarian Coalition when they have governed, have repeatedly violated the Constitution (housing, education, health, dependency, employment, equality?), under whose umbrella they now take refuge, using it as a weapon against those of us who oppose their abuses, as is the case of Podemos.
The self-styled constitutionalist bloc is especially interested in a few articles, which in the end are: article 2, on national unity; article 8 on the army, 135 to put the country at the feet of the banks and prioritize the payment of the debt and 155 to apply it in a spurious and quite unorthodox way against the Catalan independence sectors. The rest of the articles, whose compliance Podemos demands, such as housing, employment, pensions, education, health, dependency, this bloc cares very little about and good proof of this is being given with its multiple attacks on what remains of the Welfare State.
The right of the PP-C's, together with sectors of the justice system and the rest of the established powers, have become emboldened. And, once started, they would like to recentralize the State, make laws to cut rights and freedoms, legislate in favor of the powerful, attacking the rights of the weakest sectors, as is the case of retired people and pensioners.
In this frantic race towards the extreme right, which has so much influence in other European countries, they use the xenophobic message against refugees and consequently develop their policies of non-reception, fences and concertinas.
However, the icing on the cake comes in recent times with education, for which they refuse to bet on as a public service, of public ownership, and that at zero cost they intend to impregnate with their reactionary ideology.
Not only are they incapable of carrying out an educational pact, but they counterattack in the line that the illustrious Esperanza Aguirre started years ago when she spoke of "Spanishizing Catalan children"; because now her party intends to uniform the entire school population with its catechism on the values of God, Country and King, making us go back more than half a century to full Francoism, when the prevailing ideology was inoculated in the vein, through all school texts.
Now they want to talk about education in values, exalting the army, the most rancid patriotic values, an imposed king, the anthem, the indissoluble national unity, which is giving them so much profit among some sectors of the impoverished population, belittled, without employment or with poverty wages, with pensions that do not allow them to leave the area of social exclusion, with cuts in health, education and dependency, with fear, with a lot of fear. Fear of losing what? Those are the values with which they want to uniform the school population.
If they want to educate in universal values, there are magnificent principles to draw on: freedom, equality, fraternity, solidarity, justice, peace, universal declaration of human rights and earth charter.
More science and less doctrine. More critical and free spirits and less indoctrination.
Manuel Marrero Morales, Deputy of the Parliamentary Group Podemos Canarias