Constitution Day: 6th December.

The Constitution is the basis of the law. An original copy, signed by King Juan Carlos I on the 27th December, is in the Congress of Deputies in Madrid. 

It went into effect on the 29th of the same month.

Pick: Constitution Day

Constitution Day marks  a referendum held in Spain on 6th December 1978. 

The referendum was approved and it was the first step to reestablish democracy under the political form of parliamentary monarchy, after a long  dictatorship period which started in 1939 and ended in 1978. Before that ,"The fathers of the Constitution", politicians who had different political ideas, worked on a draft which was also approved by the Spanish Parliament on 31st October 1978. These political leaders represented a wide spectrum within the Parliament.






















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Information taken from:
Constituion Day in Spain