The president of the CPE “applauds the new Sports Law” and appreciates the “high degree of consensus”
MADRID, 22 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), Miguel Carballeda, celebrated this Thursday the final approval of the new Sports Law in the Plenary Session of the Congress of Deputies, as it represents a “great progress” for the practice of people with disabilities, by At the same time, he highlighted the political “consensus” to carry out the new text.
“This law represents a great advance for the sport of people with disabilities and it has been achieved with the consensus between all the parliamentary groups in the part that refers to this matter,” said the also president of the ONCE Social Group, after the approval of the Plenary to the amendments incorporated in the Senate.
The president also wanted to thank the inclusion in the law of all the proposals from the disability sector and the Paralympic movement and favorably assessed their content. “I am pleased that its main axes are meeting the needs to achieve greater gender equality in sports activity, as well as aspiring to the full inclusion of people with disabilities in society through sport,” he said.
“Sport is a very important vehicle to achieve that long-awaited inclusion and what we demand from the Paralympic movement is that people with disabilities have equal opportunities in access to sports, because it is an essential activity for all people. We trust in that the new sports law is going to mean progress towards achieving said objective”, he added.
In addition, Carballeda thanked the work of the different political groups to agree, together with the CPE and CERMI, everything related to the practice of sports by people with disabilities. “It has been a model and we trust that it can serve as an example for the other great subject that we currently have in Congress: the reform of article 49 of the Constitution to change the hurtful term ‘disabled’ to that of ‘persons with disabilities'” she pointed out.
In this sense, Carballeda requested that, following this example of consensus, the reform adhere exclusively to article 49, an issue that has been worked on for years and on which there was already a consensus within the congressional commission. “It cannot be understood that people with disabilities are used to try to achieve other political interests. We demand respect for people with disabilities,” he concluded.