The network of educational centers of Castile-La Mancha will begin soon with 800 more teachers than last year. The Governing Council gave the green light to the incorporation of 412 additional teachers for this course. They belong to the so-called extraordinary quota, which is added to the 386 teachers approved last week by the Council of Communities. Sources from the regional government told ABC that “in total, our network of centers will have more than 33,400 professionals800 more than the previous year.
In the field of education, although academic, the president of Castilla-La Mancha was present this Tuesday, Emiliano Garcia-Pagewho was responsible for inaugurating in the regional capital the 76th Congress of the International Commission for the Study of the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions (ICHRPI), at the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), where hailed democracy as the best political system of representation. “I think all the answers are positive in favour of representative democracies, they contribute to international coexistence – I don’t say that easily; “They contribute more to peace than any other political system and contribute to making a society of law the common norm.”
‘They don’t represent us’
He referred at this point to the hardest economic crisis that society has ever known, that of 2007, “where all the values of the market society were put to the test, very rich in rights and even in social protections when the system collapsed.” global financial system, and “when many societies found themselves doubting their identity.”
A economic crisis which was also reflected in many parliaments“In Spain we live very hard as congresses, parliaments, parliamentary assemblies They were surrounded by people who said, “They don’t represent us,” “the populist bet for a representation that is much more assembled than representative.”
Because “for many people, this it was still an unrepresentative caste“, but – he added – “fortunately today, like the majority of those who called for these demonstrations against representative democracy They sought to become deputies and senatorsThe debate has disappeared, among other reasons, because there is no viable alternative.
The “virus” of populism
However, Page wonders how parliamentarianism will cope with the future challengesknowing that we are faced with “a technological revolution“, and warned that the new techniques of populism – which undermine representation – are based on the new technologies, in social networks. “How will representation respond to the crisis of legitimacy represented by a society that makes decisions at all times – permanently, but also in a a universal, uncontrolled and chaotic debate– the legitimacy of representing slow, serene and calm debate processes? This is a serious and important challenge because This will shake the very nature of political parties, already infected by the virus of populism. “at unsuspected levels,” he said, and “as is done in universities, we must study and propose improvements and expand representative democracy as much as possible.”
