The reform of article 49 of the Constitution is already a reality and is ready to come into force following publication in the Official State Gazette (BOE) after being approved in the Senate by 254 votes in favor and 3 against.
The replacement of the term disabled by the expression “people with disabilities”, the obligation of public powers to “carry out the necessary policies to guarantee full personal autonomy and social inclusion in universally accessible environments” of the group, the recognition of these people “as rights holders” and special attention for minors and women with disabilities have been definitively approved this Thursday in the Senate in a vote that has attracted the support of a large majority.
The Senate Board, like the Congress did, agreed yesterday not to admit the amendments presented by the Confederal Left Group for not having a “direct relationship” with the regulated matter. Two of them by the senator for Ibiza and Formentera, Juanjo Ferrer, to include in the Magna Carta a senator for the island of Formentera and one by Enric Morera for the “effective reintegration of Valencian Civil Law.”
Amendments aside, the consensus regarding article 49 has allowed for an agile process, via urgency. The third reform of the Magna Carta in its 45 years of life has only been met with the only, and ineffective, resistance from Vox.
