Ayuso places university, and the student protest, in the trigger for its educational policies. The draft of the Law of Higher Teachings, Universities and Science of the Community of Madrid articulates a sanctioning regulation that would open the door to penalize university writings, such as those suffered by the former Vox deputy, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, in the Faculty of Policies of the Complutense in February. Sanctions are also collected for “allowing the occupation of any place on the campus.”
The text specifically regulates as a serious infraction “allowing the manifestations or unauthorized or communicated actions to prevent the free and peaceful exercise of the manifestations or activities that have been duly authorized or communicated within the campus”, according to the draft advanced by the country and consulted by eldiario.es.
That was what happened during the act that Espinosa de los Monteros attended, and was boycotted by hundreds of students. The expolitic of Vox was going to participate in an event of the Conservative Association ‘Libertad without Ira’, finally was canceled due to the student opposition. The president herself suffered a protest in her meats when she went to collect the title of illustrious student granted by the Complutense University. On that occasion the regional government had summoned members of new generations, their youth organization, to counteract the hundreds of students who demonstrated.
Serious infractions will be penalized, if the draft is approved as it is written, with a fine of 15,000.01 to 100,000 euros. This category also includes sanctions for “allowing the occupation of any place of the campus, or that access to them is prevented or the use of university facilities, as well as teaching, to which students and staff have the right”, an assumption that could open the door fines for the camping that have been made in public universities in defense of the Palestinian people.
The Ministry of Education of the Government of Ayuso ensures that interpreting that this sanctioning regime will punish with up to 100,000 euros the “escraches and the manifestations not authorized in the university” is a “manipulation until the falsity the content” of the text. In addition, they say that, although The country It has been published this Wednesday, the text is a “a sanctioning regime announced and discussed since 2024, and to which no novelty has been added since then.” The president has also spoken, ensuring that the “news is false.”
“With this, no state norm is contravened. On the contrary, the line of the National Law of University Coexistence approved by the Sánchez Government in 2022 is followed. Precisely what protects the law of the Community of Madrid is the freedom of expression, meeting, association, participation and chair. The exercise of fundamental rights in university campuses is protected,” they point out from the Ayuso government.
The Minister of Health, Mónica García, valued this morning the draft law this morning. “I think he is following the wake against the University of Mr. Trump (the president of the United States, who is at open war against Harvard) and reminds us a lot of the ‘intelligence’ dies of many years.”
The minister understands that Ayuso, with whom he had a encounter last Friday at the presidents conference, is displaying “a war against critical thinking and against freedom of expression within the places where they do not make the wave or are not their vassals.” The regional president suffered a massive protest on the Complutense campus when she went to collect the distinction as an illustrious student granted by the University, and has sometimes commented that she is colonized on the left.
UCM X the public, the organization that is channeling the protests in the Complutense, has issued a statement on Wednesday, which value that Ayuso’s proposal “responds to the rise of mobilization for public education in Madrid with a law that threatens astronomical sanctions and condemning ostracism for exercising the fundamental rights of demonstration and protest”. “Instead of wanting to silence and control the university, we demand that the community of the community provide decent budgets and not strangle the university, making it a private business without quality,” adds the platform.
Other sanctionable actions
Other sanctionable facts contemplated in the draft will occur if, “in the exercise of university autonomy by academic authorities”, “the harassment of university members or the people who visit or are invited to the campus, by action or omission” is allowed.
In addition, the fines draft if “discriminated” to “associations legitimately constituted in the allocation of facilities, funds, activities and general participation in university life.” With all the text, it seeks to impose serious disciplinary measures if it is prevented “the free exercise of the right of manifestation and protest with due authorization or communication, and within the legal limits.”
The Minister of Education, Eduardo Vicianaa sanctioning regime defended a few weeks ago to “guarantee the exercise of constitutional rights, freedom of expression, chair and association.”
The person responsible for Madrid’s teaching said that protest is very good, but “this type of actions cannot be allowed to prevent the development of university life, that spaces are closed, that the classrooms cannot be accessed,” and recalled that they are the Rectors in charge of enforcing the order. Asked specifically for the camping, he rejected “to go down to that level of detail”, but ended up granting that “it does not have to assume a violation of freedom.”
Very serious infractions will range between 100,000 and one million euros. These severe violations of the Madrid university law include, among others, the breach of the Constitution, as well as that “the fundamental rights and their full exercise by people who are legitimately in the University Campus are unprotected or not guarantee, or not guarantee, by action or omission, plurality and freedom in campus, especially freedom of expression, and of chair”.
The Community of Madrid plans to sanction with up to one million euros to those people or institutions that hinder “the legitimate action of the State Security Forces and Bodies within the University Campus”, and those that allow “the celebration of illegal referendum”.
With this sanctioning regime, the community ensures that it will give “tools to universities to be able to make this autonomy effective and to guarantee fundamental rights, because university autonomy also consists that the university is legally protected”.
“The most serious cases are reserved for higher centers that begin their activity without being authorized, against misleading advertising, that public places are covered without meet the requirements and also, of course, censorship, discrimination against race, sex, religion or any other violation of fundamental rights are sanctioned,” they indicate from the Ministry of Education.
Source: www.eldiario.es
