Zaragoza, 12 de marzo de 2009.
En el Pleno de las Cortes de Aragón celebrado hoy se ha producido, con el respaldo unánime de todos los Grupos Parlamentarios, la elección de Fernando García Vicente como Justicia de Aragón, de modo que, tras su futura toma de posesión, iniciará su tercer mandato como titular de la Institución autonómica encargada de la defensa de los derechos individuales y colectivos de todos los aragoneses.
Esta Asociación ha manifestado públicamente, en varias ocasiones, su reconocimiento a la labor realizada por Fernando García Vicente al frente de la institución del Justicia de Aragón, agradeciendo la receptividad mostrada hacia la labor de la Asociación, a cuya Junta Directiva recibió en la sede de la Institución poco tiempo después de celebrarse la asamblea constitutiva.
La tramitación dada, durante estos dos últimos años, a las numerosas quejas y propuestas planteadas ante el Justicia de Aragón ha supuesto, sin duda, la relación más positiva y fecunda de entre las mantenidas por esta Asociación con el conjunto de las instituciones públicas a las que se ha dirigido. Por ello, la nueva elección de García Vicente como titular de la Institución añade a nuestra valoración del papel que corresponde al Justicia de Aragón la confianza en el quehacer ya acreditado por su reelegido titular.
Deseamos que el tercer mandato de García Vicente como titular de la institución del Justicia de Aragón, durante el cual se ha de revisar la organización institucional de la Comunidad Autónoma para adecuarla al nuevo contenido del Estatuto de Autonomía, tras su reforma de 2007, y se ha reformar la legislación de la función pública aragonesa, para adaptarla al vigente Estatuto Básico del Empleado Público, contribuya positivamente a la mejora de la Administración autonómica como organización al servicio del interés general y de los derechos de los ciudadanos aragoneses.
Esta Asociación, mediante el ejercicio de los mecanismos de participación en los asuntos públicos que prevé nuestro ordenamiento, proseguirá depositando su confianza en la labor institucional del Justicia de Aragón y, por ello, colaborando lo más activamente posible en el desarrrollo de su labor de supervisión de la Administración de la Comunidad Autónoma, para que la actividad de ésta sea respetuosa con el ordenamiento jurídico aragonés y con los derechos constitucionales y estatutarios de los aragoneses.
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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Esperemos que en este tercer mandato ejerce una función de control más decidida.
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