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Zaragoza, 24 de noviembre de 2008. La Comisión de Peticiones y Derechos Humanos de las Cortes de Aragón ha comunicado a la Asociación para la Defensa de la Función Pública Aragonesa su acuerdo por el que se admite la comparecencia solicitada el pasado mes de diciembre de 2007, convocando a tal efecto a los representantes de esta Asociación para mañana martes 25 de noviembre, a las diez y media de la mañana, con el fin de exponer ante dicha Comisión los fines de la Asociación, así como las iniciativas adoptadas en coherencia con los mismos.
Valoramos muy positivamente el hecho de que tal comparecencia tenga finalmente lugar ante la institución que representa a los aragoneses, al constituir una valiosa oportunidad para exponer públicamente las razones que han motivado la creación de la Asociación y para expresar, de forma razonada, la preocupación por la situación que atraviesa la Administración de la Comunidad Autónoma y la necesidad de que ciudadanos, servidores públicos e instituciones, cada uno desde su responsabilidad específica, contribuyan al correcto funcionamiento de los servicios públicos, desde el respeto a la legalidad y el refuerzo de la profesionalidad y de los valores de la ética pública, con el fin de asegurar el efectivo ejercicio de los derechos de los ciudadanos y la satisfacción del interés general.
La comparecencia será igualmente ocasión para exponer al citado órgano parlamentario la necesidad de que el control e impulso de la acción de gobierno en materia de administración y función pública sean oportunamente ejercidos por la institución parlamentaria, así como para recordar a la Comisión de Peticiones las numerosas peticiones formuladas desde la Asociación, al amparo de lo previsto en el Reglamento de las Cortes de Aragón, sin que ninguna de ellas haya recibido hasta la fecha la tramitación establecida reglamentariamente.
Like the battle of Waterloo, the battle for Scotland was a damn close-run thing. The effects of Thursday’s no vote are enormous – though not as massive as the consequences of a yes would have been.
The vote against independence means, above all, that the 307-year Union survives. It therefore means that the UK remains a G7 economic power and a member of the UN security council. It means Scotland will get more devolution. It means David Cameron will not be forced out. It means any Ed Miliband-led government elected next May has the chance to serve a full term, not find itself without a majority in 2016, when the Scots would have left. It means the pollsters got it right, Madrid will sleep a little more easily, and it means the banks will open on Friday morning as usual.
But the battlefield is still full of resonant lessons. The win, though close, was decisive. It looks like a 54%-46% or thereabouts. That’s not as good as it looked like being a couple of months ago. But it’s a lot more decisive than the recent polls had hinted. Second, it was women who saved the union. In the polls, men were decisively in favour of yes. The yes campaign was in some sense a guy thing. Men wanted to make a break with the Scotland they inhabit. Women didn’t. Third, this was to a significant degree a class vote too. Richer Scotland stuck with the union — so no did very well in a lot of traditonal SNP areas. Poorer Scotland, Labour Scotland, slipped towards yes, handing Glasgow, Dundee and North Lanarkshire to the independence camp. Gordon Brown stopped the slippage from becoming a rout, perhaps, but the questions for Labour — and for left politics more broadly — are profound.
For Scots, the no vote means relief for some, despair for others, both on the grand scale. For those who dreamed that a yes vote would take Scots on a journey to a land of milk, oil and honey, the mood this morning will be grim. Something that thousands of Scots wanted to be wonderful or merely just to witness has disappeared. The anticlimax will be cruel and crushing. For others, the majority, there will be thankfulness above all but uneasiness too. Thursday’s vote exposed a Scotland divided down the middle and against itself. Healing that hurt will not be easy or quick. It’s time to put away all flags.
The immediate political question now suddenly moves to London. Gordon Brown promised last week that work will start on Friday on drawing up the terms of a new devolution settlement. That may be a promise too far after the red-eyed adrenalin-pumping exhaustion of the past few days. But the deal needs to be on the table by the end of next month. It will not be easy to reconcile all the interests – Scots, English, Welsh, Northern Irish and local. But it is an epochal opportunity. The plan, like the banks, is too big to fail.
Alex Salmond and the SNP are not going anywhere. They will still govern Scotland until 2016. There will be speculation about Salmond’s position, and the SNP will need to decide whether to run in 2016 on a second referendum pledge. More immediately, the SNP will have to decide whether to go all-out win to more Westminster seats in the 2015 general election, in order to hold the next government’s feet to the fire over the promised devo-max settlement. Independence campaigners will feel gutted this morning. But they came within a whisker of ending the United Kingdom on Thursday. One day, perhaps soon, they will surely be back.
(Artículo de Martin Kettle, publicado en "The Guardian" el 19 de septiembre de 2014)
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Puede ser que esta comparecencia marque un punto de inflexión en lo que han sido hasta ahora los comportamientos de las instituciones en relación con esta asociación. O al menos eso sería lo deseable.
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