With a smile spreading and lighting up the entire face, a powerful hug and a few strong pats on the back. It was with what effusion that they greeted each other, after a long period without seeing each other, who was the first president of the Junta de Castilla y León to come out of the polls, Demetrio Madrid (PSOE), in power between 1983 and 1986 , and who occupied this chair the longest in almost 42 years of independent activity, Juan Vicente Herrera (PP), from 2001 to 2018. And from there, gestures of trust, complicity and even friendship from the from those who, being political rivals, demonstrated. yesterday, like a mirage in the current political landscape, this understanding is possible. Those who for years were at the head of the two majority formations agreed to call for a return to this harmony – during the presentation to the Cortes of the book “Castilla y León: 40 years of autonomy”, published by the Consultative Council . “We must rebuild the bridges,” Herrera expressly appealed to “current political leaders.” “Let’s talk much more about bridges than walls,” shouted the former president of the People’s Party, calling for action “with responsibility and loyalty.” “May we be more aware of what unites us than what separates us, to face the essential and necessary reforms,” he underlined, retired from the front since 2019. He considered it “fundamental” to “ recover common sense, sense”. “, because “we cannot afford to throw what we have accomplished into the wastes of history”. A path of half a century of democracy and more than four decades of autonomy which must serve, has underlined Herrera, to “recover all the positive things that we had” during this period, a moment, he stressed, that we must take advantage of to “talk a lot, very well and above all educationally” to young people about “values. ” that the Transition gave birth to and transmitted. An era “happy for the future of the coexistence of the Spaniards”, he noted, evoking the verses of Jaime Gil de Biedma “Of all the stories of history, the saddest is that of Spain because it always ends badly.” “It is in our hands that this period does not end badly”, he added in a speech in which he also sent a message of optimism: “I believe that the best for Castilla y León and Spain is yet to come, that the future is positive.” “Convinced autonomist”, as he defines himself, who at the same time recognizes that ‘”he wasn’t particularly so” until he “developed the feeling” through his work. “We cannot accept that the problems and imbalances that Spain is experiencing today are blamed on the autonomy,” he said. The “legitimation” of this model of “useful autonomy”, he assured, “is exercised day by day” through the presentation of services, and warned that “centralist and authoritarian moments” are ” united.” More than forty years in which “the transformation has been of such intensity that it is very difficult to imagine,” said Demetrio Madrid. He praised the way in which the formation of the Community developed “so peacefully”, obtaining the support of the 2,248 municipalities and being aware that “these were two regions, but we had to do together.” “By making a virtue of necessity,” the greatest autonomy was created, greater than Portugal: “It was like making a state within a state.” To apply the Autonomy Statute – the last one approved – there was a “disagreement”, recalled and recognized Jesús Quijano, another of the voices in the history of the Community. Standard related news If Mañueco rushes and throws “little pills” of budgets to the opposition, Montse Serrador criticizes the fact that Vox and Podemos refused to “work” by not sitting down with CarriedoProfessor of constitutional law, who was secretary general of the PSOE of Castile and León for a decade (1990-2000), he was one of the architects of the Statute of Autonomy born in 1983. Present in the negotiations and among those responsible for giving legal form to the text, as he recalled yesterday, there were points in which the understanding felt so complicated that it remained aside. Case, he says, of the celebration of Castilla y León, set years later on April 23, or official headquarters of the Community, which still does not have a “home”. “But,” he added, “there came a time when it could be agreed, it was agreed.” They perceived “uncertainties, insecurity”, but “the good will of all and the generosity” made it possible to achieve the Statute of Autonomy with which Castilla y León was officially born as a Community, opening a stage including Quijano declared “no” having “no doubt” about its usefulness, although there remain “problems” and challenges. “Build bridges and eliminate trenches” is also his call. “And what community is not artificial?” asked Professor Enrique Berzal, also participating in the meeting on the Statute.
