The Spanish Constitution of 1978 was born as a legal frame so that the citizens we established a real democracy, with the participation of all, in order to construct a society peacefully, equality and freedom. In this Constitution public commits itself to the powers to promote the progress social and economic as well as to try a distribution of more equitable the national and personal income, taking as it bases solidarity between territories and correcting the economic imbalances. All we aspired to that the public management was absolutely honest and respectful with the citizens.

They have spent 25 years and a general deterioration of the democratic values is observed, a lack of respect on the part of the power constituted to the opinion of the citizens, in special to the minorities, and a persistence in confusing the absolute majority with the absolute reason, generating a fatigue and moral satiety in one it leaves important from the society. The political control of the society has been decreasing the possibilities of direct and real participation of the citizenship, arriving itself at a dangerous threat of backward movement in which it affects the democratic values. Thus, with this model the society has fallen progressively in a easy resignation, if not in a lethargy, that it has gradually oxidized the civil means of fight and social commitment. On the other hand, the regional and provincial imbalances have been increased in certain cases of worrisome form.

In this context, Zamora is a province that is characterized by a very serious demographic situation, by a highest aging, by a strong dependency of the public administrations, by a very significant weight of the sector services in the use, by a little productive and industrial capacity, by a strong depopulation in the rural world, by an excessive economic weight of the agrarian sector, by one reduced enterprise dimension, by an almost null investment in technology and investigation and development, by a constant increase of the saving in damage of the investment.

Zamora is possibly the last province of the Community of Castile and Leon at the time of converging with the parameters that the European Union marks to us. All we know and we suffered, in the personal and familiar scope, the human drain which we come suffering in the use, specially between the young people, that they must leave outside the province to look for work.

In Zamora there are so many pensioners as occupied population and by each boy who is born we have two deaths. to follow with this progression, in a no distant future, in this province it will not be left anybody. We cannot deny that infrastructures have been constructed and made investments, but we have almost always been the last ones in receiving them and without the quantities necessary to solve the serious imbalances that distance to us of the others. We are the last ones in almost everything.

Nevertheless, we do not want nor we can be only victims. We must assume the responsibility that corresponds to us like social group, then only with moans we are not going to solve the problems. In different degree, all we are responsible for the present situation.

The citizens we cannot allow that the political parties are the exclusive channel of the citizen representation. In this province the clientelism is used, the domination and influence of a cacique and the manipulation like habitual currency of change to obtain to fidelities and personal advantages. Frequently the authorities confuse public utility with yield and many initiatives are raised solely in economic terms, without giving samples of minimum sensitivity to other values. The democratic deficit is reflected with more force and impudence in provinces like ours, little profitable electoral and with political representatives who obey more to their internal apparatuses that to the necessities of the province.

Before this situation, a group of citizens we have created the Citizen Forum of Zamora like opened place of reflection, debate and information that allows to offer to the zamorana civil society opinions, concrete and constructive proposals on the problems that affect to the city of Zamora and their province, to the margin of the offered ones from the political parties. We try to exert our capacity of denunciation and protest before the carried out performances by all type of Administrations and Institutions when we consider that they are not correct. We did not exclude to show our criterion, opinion and support in other subjects of singular importance already are of next scope, nationals or internationals.

The Citizen Forum of Zamora tries to compete neither supplanting nor emulating to the political parties, consequently he is open to all the citizens, independently of its thoughts and political tendencies. It interests and it worries the public thing to us, the communal property, the policy with capital letter. We want, then, to follow another way.

The Citizen Forum of Zamora does not try to assume the representativeness of all the citizens, well on the contrary, it is offered to all the groups that work and they worry about the social problems, ecological and humanitarian to unite efforts. We are open to support and to collaborate with all those that fight by causes that result in the communal property and improve the quality of life of all the society as a whole, thinking as much about the future as about the present immediate.

The Citizen Forum of Zamora is open to all the citizens, of all the classes and ages, whenever they respect the freedom of expression and they assume the decisions taken by majority of the Forum. Not to distort images before the public opinion as well as to preserve our independence, the representatives of organizations or institutions, or they are political or of another type, they could be members of the Forum but without significant representation of the same one.

The Citizen Forum of Zamora wants to contribute to freely form opinion between all the citizens through our official notices and public interventions as well as by means of the periodic celebration of acts opened on those subjects of interest for the zamoranos.

The Citizen Forum of Zamora tries, in sum, to cause the formation of free judgments on which it surrounds to us and affects to us, and to foment the dialogue and the citizen participation like a regeneration mechanism and political action.

The Citizen Forum of Zamora again wants to lay a way, an old way that there is to return to begin between all.

Zamora, 20 of April of 2004.