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Order Of Constitutional Merit
The Order of Constitutional Merit is a civil order of merit established by royal decree on 18 November 1988. The order is granted those who have carried out activities in service of the Spanish Constitution and its values and established principles. It may be granted to people and groups both public or private, Spanish or foreign. Recipients are treated as an ''Excellency''. Appearance The order has a distinctive oval medal, made of sterling silver with gold plating. The obverse is the coat of arms of Spain on a blue background and the legend ''Constitutional Merit''. The badge of the Order of Constitutional Merit hangs from a silk ribbon equally divided in red and yellow parts. The Medal of Constitutional Merit hangs from a twisted silk cord of red and yellow. Groups and organizations are awarded a Plaque of Honor with the insignia of the order. Notable recipients * Gloria Begué Cantón * Josep Borrell Fontelles * Tomás Caballero Pastor * Gabriel Cisneros *Eduardo Chilli ...
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Insignia Of The Spanish Order Of Constitutional Merit
An insignia () is a sign or mark distinguishing a group, grade, rank, or function. It can be a symbol of personal power or that of an official group or governing body. An insignia, which is typically made of metal or fabric, is a standalone symbol of a particular or general authority. Together, insignias form a decoration with the different elements of a rank, grade, or dignity. There are many types of insignia, including civil decoration, civil and military decorations, Crown (heraldry), crowns, emblems, and coats of arms. Singular/plural "Insignia" can be used either as a plurale tantum word, i.e. unchanged for both singular and plural, or it can take the plural form "insignias", both equally valid options. The singular "insigne" is rarely used. History The use of insignias predates history, both for personal and group (especially military) use. When the insignia was meant to be seen, it was placed at top of a pole or the head of a spear. The Persians used a golden eagle as ...
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Eduardo Chillida
Eduardo Chillida Juantegui (Basque: ''Eduardo Txillida Juantegi''; 10 January 1924 – 19 August 2002) was a Spanish Basque sculptor notable for his abstract works. Early life and career Born in San Sebastián (Donostia) to Pedro Chillida and the soprano Carmen Juantegui on 10 January 1924. Eduardo Chillida grew up near hotel ''Biarritz'', which was owned by his grandparents.Eduardo Chillida
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid.
Chillida had been the goalkeeper for , San Sebastián's football team, where his knee was so ser ...
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Boletín Oficial Del Estado
The (''BOE''; "", from 1661 to 1936 known as the ''Gaceta de Madrid'', "") is the official gazette of the Spain, Kingdom of Spain and may be published on any day of the week. The content of the ''BOE'' is authorized and published by Royal Assent and with approval from the Ministry of the Presidency (Spain), Spanish Presidency Office. The ''BOE'' publishes decrees by the , Spain's Parliament (comprising the Spanish Senate, Senate and the Congress of Deputies) as well as those orders enacted by the Spanish Autonomous Communities. The Spanish Constitution of 1978 provides in Article 9.3 that "The Constitution guarantees ... the publication of laws." This includes the official publishing of all Spanish judicial, royal and national governmental decrees, as well as any orders by the Council of Ministers. According to Royal Decree 181/2008
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Pablo Pérez Tremps
Pablo Pérez Tremps (22 August 1956 – 16 July 2021) was a Spanish judge on the Constitutional Court and professor of constitutional law. Early life Pérez Tremps was born on 22 August 1956 in Madrid, Spain. Pérez Tremps graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid with a law degree in 1978. Career Pérez Tremps joined the Constitutional Court of Spain in June 2004, for a nine-year term. Pérez Tremps left the court in June 2013. Pérez Tremps was awarded the Medal of the Order of Constitutional Merit on 5 December 2014, in Madrid. Pérez Tremps died on 16 July 2021, at the age of 64. Publications * * References External links Coverage of Pablo Pérez Trempsin El País (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Perez Tremp ...
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Fernando Savater
Fernando Fernández-Savater Martín (born 21 June 1947 at Basque city of San Sebastián) is a Spanish philosopher, essayist and author. Early years and career Born in San Sebastián, he was an Ethics professor at the University of the Basque Country for over a decade. Presently he is a Philosophy professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has won several accolades for his literary work, which covers issues as diverse as contemporary ethics, politics, cinema and literary studies. In 1990, Savater and columnist and publisher, Javier Pradera, founded the magazine, ''Claves de Razón Práctica''. In November 2012 he was awarded the prestigious Octavio Paz Prize of Poetry and Essay. In that same year 2012, with issue number 222 (May–June 2012), he became Editor in Chief of "Claves de razón práctica" ( Spanish for "Keys for Practical Reason"), a critical thought and cultural crusading review founded by Javier Pradera in 1990, thus giving start to a second era o ...
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Pascual Sala
Pascual Sala Sánchez (born 18 June 1935) is a Spanish jurist. He was president of the Spanish Supreme Court of Spain, Supreme Court and of the General Council of the Judiciary between 1990 and 1996, and was later president of the Constitutional Court of Spain, Constitutional Court, between 2011 and 2013. Early life Sala was born on 18 June 1935 in Valencia, and went on to study a law degree at the University of Valencia. He became a judge in 1962, and in 1970 became a magistrate of administrative disputes, presiding over courts in Valencia, Albacete and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. During the same decade, he formed part of Justicia Democrática, a movement composed of lawyers and other legal professionals in opposition to Francoist Spain, Franco's dictatorship in Spain and in favour of democracy. After the end of Franco's dictatorship, Sala became a member of the professional association Judges for Democracy until he took up his post as the President of the Supreme Court and the Ge ...
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José Rivas Fontán
José Rivas Fontán (born 31 August 1941) is a Spanish politician and teacher who was the Mayor of Pontevedra between 1979 and 1991. He withdrew from public activity in 2004 and is currently retired. Biography Family José Rivas Fontán was born on 31 August 1941 in Xeve parish in the Pontevedra municipality, Spain. He is the son of Paulino Rivas Maquieira and Elvira Fontán Fontán and was the youngest of three brothers. In 1965, he married Mª Gloria Lis Corral. The couple had four children. Education and early political career Rivas Fontán grew up in a parish near the town of Pontevedra, where he attended a state primary school, starting at age six. He bicycled to secondary school, and later commuted eight kilometers by bicycle to a Teacher Training college in Pontevedra. He was stationed at the military headquarters in the capital during his compulsory military service. In 1963, he passed the state teachers' entry exam for adult education. He sat a special exam, set ...
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Javier Pradera
Francisco Javier Pradera Gortázar (28 April 1934 – 20 November 2011) was a Spanish anti-Franco activist, journalist, political analyst and publisher. Pradera was a journalist and columnist for ''El País'', based in Madrid. Pradera worked as an editorial writer at ''El País'' from 1976 to 1986. His first piece for ''El País'' was published on 16 May 1976. He remained an ''El País'' columnist and editorial board member from 1986 until his death in 2011. Outside of ''El País'', Pradera worked as the director of the publishing firm, Alianza Editorial, and founded the publishing house, Siglo XXI. Pradera was born on 28 April 1934 in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa. His grandfather, Víctor Pradera Larumbe, a politician who founded the Bloque Nacional, now a defunct conservative party, was killed by anarchists in 1936. His father, Javier Pradera, was also assassinated just one day after his grandfather. Pradera completed his law degree as a cum laude from Complutense University. ...
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Gotzone Mora
Gotzone Mora (b. Bilbao in 1948) is a Spanish social-democratic politician. She was a member of the Basque Socialist Party (''"Euskadiko Alderdi Sozialista – Euskadiko Ezkerra" / "Partido Socialista de Euskadi – Euskadiko Ezkerra"''/ PSE-EE) till March 2008 when she was expelled from it for advocating support for the People's Party. Since 2008 she has been a member of the People's Party (''"Partido Popular"'' / PP). Of humble origins, she has become knowledgeable on human migration and global social processes. She has been a sociology reader in the University of the Basque Country in Spain. She was an elected member of the Getxo municipality (Biscay) until 2007, and is currently a member of the intellectual group Foro Ermua ''(the Ermua Forum)'' and ''Democratic Citizenship''. Due to her critical position towards the social policy of the leader of her party she has a banishment expedient waiting for resolution (2006). She has been targeted by the violent separatist orga ...
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José María Portillo Valdés
José María "Txema" Portillo Valdés (born on 1961 in Bilbao) is a Spanish historian, professor of Contemporary History at the University of the Basque Country. He is an expert in Spanish constitutional history. Biography Valdés was born in 1961. He earned a PhD in History from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), reading a dissertation in 1990 titled ''Monarquía y Gobierno Provincial. Poder y Constitución en las provincias exentas, 1760-1808'' and supervised by . On 13 February 1998, he was one of the founders of the Foro Ermua. A lecturer at the UPV/EHU since 1988, he was subject to harassment and threats coming from ETA Eta ( ; uppercase , lowercase ; ''ē̂ta'' or ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel, . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative, , in most dialects of Ancient Greek, it ..., as well as an attempted attack at the Vitoria Campus where he worked, wherein an incendiary a ...
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Jaime Mayor Oreja
Jaime Mayor Oreja (born 12 July 1951) is a former Spanish conservative politician of the People's Party. He served as member of the Basque Parliament, of the Spanish Parliament, and of the European Parliament, as well as being Spanish Minister of the Interior between 1996 and 2000. He is known for his outspoken anti-ETA rhetoric and social ultracatholicism Biography Early life Mayor Oreja was born and raised in San Sebastián, in the Spanish Basque Country, where he attended a school run by Marianists. He earned an agricultural engineering degree and briefly studied law before dropping out to enter politics. Mayor Oreja's family is deeply rooted in conservative Spanish politics. His grandfather Marcelino Oreja Elósegui, a Catholic activist and Carlist politician, was a victim of the Asturian strike action of 1934, and his uncle Marcelino Oreja Aguirre served extensively in the Spanish civil service and in the European Parliament. It was Marcelino Oreja who introduced h ...
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Jon Juaristi
Jon Juaristi Linacero (born in Bilbao in 1951) is a Spanish poet, essayist and translator in Spanish and Basque, as well as a self-confessed former ETA militant.''Jon Juaristi'', article at
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A Ph.D. in Romance , he studied at the