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T1 Spain as a democratic State governed by the rule of law and the catalan secessionist process
A1 Bilbao Ubillos, Juan María
K1 Rule of law
K1 Democratic quality
K1 Territorial division of power
K1 Right to secession
K1 56 Ciencias Jurídicas y Derecho
AB This work begins by recalling the characteristic features of the political system andmodel of territorial division of power established in the 1978 Spanish Constitutionafter a complicated but successful process of transition to democracy. Spain wasconstituted as a politically decentralized, social and democratic state governed by therule of law, a compromise solution between the centralist tradition and the demandsof peripheral nationalisms. Although this original formula has been progressivelydeployed with clearly positive results, it has come under threat from the challengeposed by the secessionist forces in Catalonia and the Basque Country, seriouslyendangering coexistence. In this regard, the work first analyses the Ibarretxe Plan,the confederal proposal of the president of the Basque government approved in 2004by the Basque Parliament and rejected by the lower house of the Spanish Parliament.It then examines the most relevant sequences of the secessionist process that hasunfolded in Catalonia over the last decade and which culminated in October 2017 inan illegal referendum and the unilateral declaration of independence approved by theregional parliament. It also analyses the response of Spanish institutions to attemptsat constitutional rupture and its possible impact on the democratic quality of Spainand its reputation as a state governed by the rule of law.
PB Springer
SN 1876-4045
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/75139
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/75139
LA eng
NO Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 2024, vol. 16, n. 1, p. 3-30
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 10-mar-2025