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The socialist municipal group has filed a motion requesting the appointment of a street in our town with the name of Clara Campoamor.
In the text of the proposal argue that it would be "in recognition of his role in the fight for equality, leading the Spanish women's voices to be heard by men and few women who made up the Congress of Deputies that Second Republic ".
The motion added that "no politician of any age, any member or representative of the people must therefore democracy in Spain as Clara Campoamor. We owe nothing less than universal suffrage, seemingly accepted idea but needs to be realized that women have equal voting rights as men, tough task that has consumed nearly every country in the energies of several generations of women and men friends of equality. In our country, was achieved at once, without apparent effort, because the effort did it alone. "
Discussing the proposal becomes a journey through his career.
Clara Campoamor was a woman who was herself, who always fought against everything, against all and against all - "my law is the struggle," he said to get a Spain where the crib was a source, not a destination, and where the law is not a punishment but a protection.
Spanish politics, a pioneer of feminist activism.
Coming from a modest family, he studied law while working, and graduated from the University of Madrid in 1924.
Remained very active as a lecturer in the University Women's Association and the Academy of Jurisprudence, always defending women's equality and political freedom.
With the advent of the Second Republic (1931), won a seat in parliament in Madrid on the lists of the Radical Party.
In the end, and with a narrow victory imposes its thesis and enter history as the main architect of the inclusion of women's suffrage in Spain, as reflected in the 1931 Constitution, which states in Article 36 stipulates that "Citizens of either sex, aged over 23 have the same voting rights as determined by law. "
Terms stated in the motion that was also the first woman who spoke to the Supreme Court works and developed jurisprudence on issues concerning the rights of the legal status of women in our country.
He left Spain in 1938, with the imminent victory of the reactionary military uprising, the subsequent Franco regime did not allow him to return home, so he remained in exile, first in Argentina, and from 1955 until his death in Switzerland.
This motion by the socialist municipal group will be treated in full next March.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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