Politicians, journalists, writers and teachers reflect on the Spanish Transition and the figure of the former councillor and honorary professor at the Universitat de València Emèrit Bono.  The 17 participants in the volume include articles by Joan Lerma, Ramon Lapiedra, Isabel Clara Simó, Josep Guia, Alfons Cervera, Adolf Beltran, Rosa Solbes and Ferran Bono, among others. Several voices that come close to the figure of one of the referents of the Valencian left wing as well as to one of the most important moments in the history of the country.

According to Emèrit Bono, this book "shows the problems of the Spanish Transition, the difficulties and criticisms that appeared at the time of the approval of the Constitution, and above all the common effort that the transition from a dictatorship to a democracy entailed, very interesting moments both for the fathers of the Constitution and for those who were against it".

The book, which has a chapter written by Emèrit Bono, not only assesses the Spanish Transition process, but also looks towards the present and opens a possible debate. "It is necessary a reform of the Constitution that we have after more than 40 years.  The current deficiencies are evident, for example in the territorial issue", concludes Bono.

About Emèrit Bono

Emèrit Bono i Martínez (Sagunto, Valencian Community, 1940) was a militant of the Communist Party (PCPV) during the Spanish Transition and a member of Congress in the first legislature.  He was a member of the Assembly of Valencian Parliamentarians and of the Council of the Valencian Country, chaired by Josep Lluís Albinyana as Councillor for Social Welfare (1978).  He later left the PCPV and joined the PSPV-PSOE.  In the governments of the socialist Joan Lerma was councillor of Public Administrations and spokesman of the Government (1989-1993) and councillor of Environment (1993-1995).   

Once he left politics, he focused on his chair of Applied Economics at the University of Valencia, where he retired forcibly in 2010 after turning 70.