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Today we are going to study the last page of this unit that reads about the democracy in Spain.

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They are on the pages 108 and 109 of the social science book. So we are going to start with

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Franco's death. As you know it was in 1975 and after this it started a period of change that

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was called the transition until Spain became a democracy. When Franco died he

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named Juan Carlos I, the grandson of Alfonso XIII, the king of Spain. Juan

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Carlos agreed with the reformers in order to start to be a democratic state

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so this was the start of the democracy. In 1976 Adolfo Suarez became the

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president of the government and he continued to be the president until

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until the first democratic elections in 1977. In the 1978 it's

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important to mention that the Spanish Constitution was written and voted so

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the Spanish Constitution is the most important law of Spain and it

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establishes how it is going to be governed so it's important to say that

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Spain according to the Constitution is a constitutional monarchy this means that

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we have a king but the king is not going to have the power of government of

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Spain the power of the state is selected by the people with elections and it also

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establishes that Spain is a unified state but it has autonomy with the

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territory so the territories for example the communities the autonomous

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communities or the provinces or even the different towns and cities can decide

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about some aspects of their government another thing that it establishes is

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that the official language of Spain is Spanish, Castellano, however the

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autonomous communities can speak their own language. Finally we are going to

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talk about the European Union. It used to be the European Economic Community, the

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EEC, and Spain became a member in the 1986. In the 1993 the European Economic

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community became the european union and there were more and more democratic countries from europe

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in the 2002 they created a common currency that was called the euro

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euros that we use now so with this presentation we have finished this year bye