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With great expectation was received the philosopher Manuel Cruz, recently appointed President of the Senate, in the last afternoon of this Wednesday in his talk 'What are we talking about when we talk about democratic regeneration?'
within the program Cartagena Piensa of the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena.
Prior to his appointment as president, Manuel Cruz was invited to participate in the program and did not want to miss his appointment in Cartagena that was held in the auditorium of the Museum of the Roman Theater from 20 hours.
It was before his intervention, when the acting mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, received him in the Town Hall together with the acting councilor of Culture, David Martínez, when he signed in the Golden Book of the city.
The fourth State authority was presented by Belén Rosa de Gea in her talk, a member of the Cartagena Thinking Group, who talked about her academic career, with more than thirty books published, and as director of publications collections, as well as committed thinker, as "philosopher of guard", through multiple media collaborations, and also with his personal participation in political institutions (before being an independent senator on the PSC lists, was deputy for this same party).
Manuel Cruz made an analytical intervention from his point of view as a philosopher and not a politician, highlighting the importance of programs such as Cartagena Piensa as instruments to strengthen democracy.
He distinguished three epigraphs related to democratic regeneration, as opposed to the deterioration of public life: one moral, one political and one ideological, that concur in feeding the phenomenon that has been called to call citizen disaffection.
In this regard he stressed the importance of laws, which can be changed in democracy, and also addressed the issue of the so-called "political class" that is used as a scapegoat but that social reproach is not directed in equal measure against "corruptors" ", the organized interests that provoke cases of political corruption.
He also defended the sense of representative democracy, which is not opposed to other forms of democratic participation.
He ended his speech by raising the great question of how compatible capitalism and democracy is, which gave way to a public debate where participatory democracy continued, whether it is necessary to reform or make a new constitution, among other issues.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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