XVII Edition of the Institutional Acts of the General Council of Social Graduates of Spain

The General Council of Social Graduate Colleges of Spain held its XVII Edition of the 2022 Social Merit and Mentions Awards in the Senate Plenary Hall in Madrid's Bailén Street. people or institutions with outstanding professional activity related to Social Justice.

Ricardo Gabaldón, recently re-elected president of the General Council, praised all the winners one by one, both for their long and successful career in some cases, and for their work in favor of social justice, remembering the importance of membership as a natural outlet for new promotions of social graduates, and emphasizing the importance of unity as the best weapon that this group has to achieve their legitimate aspirations.  

The awards whose candidatures are presented by the Provincial Colleges were the following:

• Social merit to Justice: Antoni Oliver, President of the Social Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Illes Balears.
• Social merit to the professional career: José Agustín Rifé, lawyer at the Administration of Justice, and Juan José Camino, head of the team at the Castellón Labor and Social Security Inspection.
• Social merit in the defense of the profession: Alejandro Ramos, general director of Labor Canary Islands.
• Social merit for the best journalistic work in favor of social justice: Diario Confilegal.

Mentions for professional merit went to Germán Prieto-Puga, former president of the College of Social Graduates of A Coruña and Ourense, Jesús Gascón, former member of the Governing Board of the College of Social Graduates of Aragón, Rafael Navarrete, former member of the Governing Board of the College of Social Graduates of Madrid, and Antonio Villanueva, social graduate of the College of Social Graduates of Málaga and Melilla.

It was also agreed during the plenary session to award the Gold Medal for Collegiate Merit of the General Council of Social Graduates of Spain to Jesús Ángel Vázquez, director of the School University of Labor Relations of A Coruña.

The event was attended by María Jesús Lorenzana, Regional Minister for the Promotion of Employment and Equality of the Xunta de Galicia, named Member of Honor for her professional career and commitment to Council. She was also named Member of Honor Magdalena Valerio, president of the Council of State and Minister of Labor, Migration and Social Security between 2018 and 2020, who could not attend to collect the distinction due to the recent death of her father.