jueves, 19 de octubre de 2017

CATALONIA

Fran Glez Alonso

A single sentence at the end of the Constitution would have solved the Catalan question forever. (It can still be added)

In the Repeal Provision, item 2, annulled laws of the nineteenth century that restricted in a certain way the historical fueros of Álava, Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya, a consequence of the 1st Carlist War annulled a law of the Second Carlist War, which constrained the Covenants between the historic Kingdom of Navarre and the Spanish State. So that the Basque Historical Territories recovered their economic concerts and Navarre, its Old Fueros. Instead of elaborating a Statute of Autonomy, Navarra drafted an Act (Organic for the Spanish State) of Reintegration and Improvement of Jurisdiction. In fact Navarre works as a federal state to Spain.
But there was a tremendous failure: they did not annul Decrees of century XVIII, consequence of the War of Succession, that they had suppressed the Historical Forces of Catalonia, Aragon, Baleares and Valencia.

Spanish Constitution 1978
Repeal provision:
2. Insofar as it could maintain some validity, the Law of October 25, 1839 is considered definitively repealed in what could affect the provinces of Alava, Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya.
In the same terms, the Law of July 21, 1876 is definitively repealed.
(It could be added: "In the same terms, the Decrees of New Plant of Catalonia, Aragon, Baleares and Valencia are considered definitively repealed")

As seen in the image, in 1702, the Corts de Catalunya approved and Philip V of Castile and IV of Aragon sanctioned, the Fourth Compilation of the Catalan Forces (Constitutions, Captains and Actes de Corts). Thirteen years later, after the War of Succession, Felipe V, by means of decrees of despotism not very illustrated, suppresses the Charter of Catalonia, Aragon, Valencia and Baleares, but not those of Navarre.
So today Navarra is not an Autonomous Community, but Foral; it works in fact as a federated state to the Spanish state; a situation that could have today Catalonia, if had taken into account the happy phrase that I have commented. Navarra has its own tax system, collects its taxes and pays with the Government of Spain the "Donation", that is the contribution that corresponds each year to the maintenance of the expenses of the state, present in the General Budgets.


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