Spain: On the Coordinación Democrática — Declaration of the Coordinación Democrática

Spain DEMOCRATICA of the accord by the congress of this organization. ing of a constituent period" leading to a "negotiated break." International in Spain. Declaration of the In face of the general crisis of the government and the regime and the absence of just and effective solutions to the grave problems of the country, fully conscious of the historic responsibility incumbent upon the democratic opposition before the peoples of Spain, the Junta Democrática de España and the Plataforma de Convergencia Democrática have decided, effective today, to dissolve and to simultaneously constitute a single opposition organ, called Coordinación Democrática, as the Indispensable means of offering Spanish society a real alternative power capable of transforming the present state into a democratic state by the peaceful road. Coordinación Democrática opposes the continuation of a regime that is making it impossible for all citizens to enjoy democratic rights, whether in the form in which it has established itself by virtue of the Fundamental Laws or in any form of government or state that attempts 14 to impose itself on the people without the necessary prior consultation, with full guarantees of polifical freedom and impartiality in which equality in the use of state means of mass communication is assured. Consequently, Coordinación Democrática denounces as contrary to peaceful coexistence the attempt of the government to maintain itself in power through its so-called reformist policy, combining democratic promises with repressive measures and attempting to divide the most responsible trade-union and political forces by means of arbitrary discrimination and exclusions. The draft political reform laws approved by the government and sent to the Cortes (parliament) are not acceptable to the opposition because although from a formal point of view they modify the previous state of affairs, they do not grant democratic liberties to all the citizens of the state.