The PSOE of Tenerife has demanded in a press release the reform of article 49 of the Spanish Constitution “to strengthen people with disabilities”. Marta Arocha, socialist candidate for the Senate for Santa Cruz de Tenerife, has advocated for the protection and promotion of the rights of people with disabilities in Spain and to change the concept of “disabled person” which “was opposed in this legislature by the Popular Party”.
“Reforming the Constitution involves having a socialist government in the State and it would not be possible to change that unworthy article for a country like Spain if the Popular Party and VOX governed,” said Arocha. In this legislature, he continued, “hard work has been done for disability.” In the first place, the candidate for the Senate reported, “the State government recovered what we call additional funding, which in 2023 alone has been 700 million euros, of which 50 million have come to the Canary Islands.”
For the next legislature, he stated that the PSOE “sets itself a fundamental objective: to effectively guarantee the rights of people with disabilities and adapt our legal system to what is established in the United Nations convention on the rights of people with disabilities”.
He went on to ensure that “our proposals are to ensure that educational centers have all the necessary resources in order to serve students with disabilities in the best conditions and also carry out a legal framework for the social inclusion of people with disabilities.”
In this sense, he valued “a fundamental measure is also to give greater prominence to personal assistance for the development of an autonomous life and also to improve advanced telecare for people with disabilities.”
