On Tuesday the 6th of December, Mijas commemorated the 44th anniversary of the Spanish Magna Carta with a focus on functional diversity and social inclusion policies. The institutional act took place on the Plaza de la Constitución (Mijas Pueblo) and Adimi’s users took centre stage. Municipal authorities, residents and visitors gathered in Mijas Pueblo to remember the importance of that text approved in 1978 in the Congress of Deputies and endorsed at the polls by 15 million Spaniards, which has ensured the stability of Spain until today. A text, according to the mayor of Mijas, Josele González (PSOE), “that finally recognised the wealth and cultural and territorial diversity of our country, building bridges of union after four decades of dictatorship”. This year, the local government in Mijas also wanted to highlight the articles of the Spanish Constitution that refer to all those people in Spain who suffer from any type of  disabilities, including article 49, as three Adimi users pointed out. The article states that “the public authorities will carry out a policy of prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and integration of people with disabilities”, read María Teresa García, a user of Adimi. Next, Guillermo Tomba, also a user of the association, pointed out that “we have the same rights as other people”, while his colleague Francisco Javier Torres thanked the Mijas Town Hall “for supporting us, and we ask them to continue to do so”. In this regard, the mayor of Mijas considered that equality of rights continues to be a utopia for citizens living with a disability, “because only one in five people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are employed and those who do have a job, work in poorer working conditions than the rest of the population, so it is necessary to provide more accessibility and the support you need in your daily lives, because Spain is a country that includes, not excludes”. The brief and simple act, as every year, included the traditional raising of the Spanish flag and the interpretation of the national anthem by the Mijas Music Band, which also offered a small concert as a finale to the day of commemoration which ended with the distribution of Christmas sweets, churros (fritters) and hot chocolate among the attendees.

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