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A constitutional crisis took place in Spain from 2017 to 2018 as the result of a political conflict between the Government of Spain and the Generalitat de Catalunya under the then- President Carles Puigdemont —the government of the autonomous community of Catalonia until 28 October 2017—over the issue of Catalan independence.
- 6 September 2017 – 1 June 2018, (8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
The 2017 Annual Report of the Spanish constitutional court recognized that 41% of the litigations regarding the 17 Autonomous Communities had only one source of conflict: Catalonia. The judicialisation of the conflict was the main feature of Rajoy’s behaviour during the crisis (SÁNCHEZ-CUENCA Citation 2018 ).
- Carles Ferreira
- 2021
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Sep 9, 2020 · Specifically, the piece focuses on the ideological role played by one important actor in the Spanish-Catalan dispute: the Spanish Constitutional Court (hereinafter: “SCC”). Between 2010 and 2017, the SCC repeatedly took a centralist-Spanish stance, blocking Catalan attempts to seize more autonomy.
- Maurits Helmich
- helmich@law.eur.nl
- 2020
- The Procedure
- The Request to The Catalan President
- The Agreement of The Council of Ministers
- The Agreement of The Senate
A number of possible excesses in the actual application of federal coercion in Catalonia in 2017 come to light when examining the request made to the Catalan President on October 11, 2017, the Agreement of the Council of Ministers, and the Agreement of the Senate. In order to understand these excesses, it is necessary to refer back not only to the ...
The request made by the government to the Catalan President was probably beyond the pale given that measures to be adopted in case the petition was dismissed were absent. According to several scholars (Ballart 1987; Gil-Robles 1999; Vírgala 2005; Ridao 2018Footnote 34; Albertí 2018; Vintró 2019), these measures should have been detailed in the lett...
In all probability, the Agreement of the Council of MinistersFootnote 35 did not meet certain procedural requirements. First, and putting this Agreement in relation to the previous request, the events which warranted the resort to Article 155 were not clearly defined,Footnote 36 since there was no full coincidence between the legal violations menti...
The Senate may have also breached several procedural rules. First, according to Article 189.1 of the Standing Orders of the Senate (see Table 4.1), the High Chamber should have checked that the formal requirements preceding the approval of coercive measures had been followed. However, the Senate did not make any objection to the lack of justificati...
- Lucía Payero-López
- payero@ugr.es
- 2020
Aug 8, 2022 · Spanish constitutional legal order does not recognize the right of the inhabitants of an Autonomous Community to decide on the dismemberment of the country. The Spanish Constitutional Court (SCC) (Judgments 42/2014 and 259/2015) has stated that considering the Catalan people as sovereign is against Spanish national sovereignty, which cannot be ...
04 October 2017. Download PDF. Catalonia's illegal referendum has resulted in a constitutional crisis in Spain. Madrid needs to urgently revise the country's model of regional government.
Apr 13, 2022 · First Online: 13 April 2022. pp 157–178. Cite this chapter. Download book PDF. Download book EPUB. Núria González Campañá. 367 Accesses. Abstract. The objective of this chapter is to draw attention to the constitutional erosion that has taken place in Spain in the last few years.
