49 posts
31 July 2006
This is the first appeal of unconstitutionality against the Statute. The PP’s group in Congress, led by Mariano Rajoy, is arguing that the Statute is […]
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Catalan languagePoliticised Constitutional Court19 September 2006
Second appeal of unconstitutionality against the Statute. The Ombudsman, Enrique Múgica (a PSOE member), submits appeals against 112 articles and four additional provisions of the […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court25 September 2006
Third appeal of unconstitutionality against the Statute. The government of Murcia, led by the PP, is reviewing the article that gives full powers to the […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court11 October 2006
Fourth appeal of unconstitutionality against the Statute. The government of La Rioja, led by the PP, submits the appeal on the articles referring to financing, […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court19 October 2006
Fifth appeal of unconstitutionality against the Statute. The government of Aragón, led by PSOE, submits the appeal in relation to the Archives of the Crown […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court19 October 2006
Sixth appeal of unconstitutionality against the Statute. The government of the Valencian Community, led by the PP, also submits an appeal in relation to the […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court20 October 2006
Seventh appeal of unconstitutionality against the Statute. The Balearic Islands government, led by the PP, is also appealing the third additional provision referring to the […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court28 June 2010
Fourteen articles on language, the Catalan legal system, banking and savings banks, civil law, financing and local tax regulation are declared unconstitutional. In this ruling […]
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Catalan languagePoliticised Constitutional Court8 September 2010
On 29 September, the Constitutional Court dismissed the appealon the reform of the Statute submitted by the government of Murcia.
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Politicised Constitutional Court16 December 2010
The Constitutional Court refers on most points in the ruling on the Statute dated 28 June and dismisses the appeals on the other points.
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Politicised Constitutional Court27 December 2010
The Spanish government believes that the State has the exclusive competence to call referendums and that the appeal is in line with theConstitutional Court ruling […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court9 June 2011
Right after the consultations on independence were held, the Constitutional Court lifts the suspension of the contested articles of the law on consultations of the […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court8 March 2013
On 7 May, the Constitutional Court agrees to hear the appeal. This is the first time since the democratic restoration that a declaration by a […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court29 September 2014
The Constitutional Court meets in an extraordinary session that same night, agrees to hear the appeals of the Spanish government and Law 10/2014 and the […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court31 October 2014
The Spanish government’s appeal seeks to stop the 9 November public participation process initiated by the government of Catalonia.
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Politicised Constitutional Court4 November 2014
In addition to admitting the Spanish government’s appeal, the Constitutional Court agrees to suspend the contested decrees and any action to prepare the consultation. Despite […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court11 March 2015
The Spanish government submits an appeal of unconstitutionality to the Constitutional Court against the Foreign Affairs Law of Catalonia and relations with the European Union […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court26 June 2015
The Spanish government cites a conflict of powers and denounces the fact that the Commissioner intends to ‘advance a process of building state structures.’ With […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtViolation of autonomy9 November 2015
In Parliament the following vote in favour: Junts pel Sí and CUP. Against: C’s, PSC, Catalunya Sí que es Pot and PP. On the same […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court11 November 2015
The Spanish government submits an appeal of unconstitutionality against the declaration of the start of the independence process approved by the Parliament of Catalonia. The […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRights to free expression and assembly2 December 2015
Constitutional Court ruling 259/2015 against the declaration will be used by the Spanish government to appeal the transitory law and the referendum law approved on […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRights to free expression and assembly31 March 2017
The executive submits an appeal of unconstitutionality against the additional provision in the government of Catalonia’s budget that provides for holding the referendum and the […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court28 July 2017
Parliament’s amendment allows the processing of draft laws by the single reading procedure at the request of only two groups. With its admission to be […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court7 September 2017
The Constitutional Council meets urgently in an extraordinary plenary session and accepts the appeals, leaving in abeyance all the contested provisions. The Constitutional Court (TC) […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court8 September 2017
The appeal of the Spanish government against some of the articles of the Law on the Tax Code, one of the ‘disconnection laws,’ which should […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court12 September 2017
The Legal Transition Law is suspended. The plenary session of the Constitutional Court also agrees to hear the appeal of the Spanish government against some […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court29 September 2017
The Spanish executive announces an appeal of unconstitutionality against the Law of the Catalan Social Protection Agency, one of the three ‘ disconnection laws.’ On […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court29 November 2017
The Constitutional Court rules that the modification of the Parliamentary Regulation enabling legislative proposals to be processed through one single reading at the request of […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court4 December 2017
Podemos MPs appeal the application of Article 155 to the Constitutional Court.
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Politicised Constitutional Court26 January 2018
The Spanish government presents an appeal of unconstitutionality against the proposal of Carles Puigdemont as president of the Catalan Government and against convening the plenary […]
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Judicial vetoes of elected officialsPoliticised Constitutional CourtRight to political representation9 May 2018
The Spanish government submits an appeal of unconstitutionality against the amendment of the Presidency Law to allow for remote investiture. This was admitted in the […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional CourtRight to political representation13 July 2018
The Spanish government lodges an appeals to the Constitutional Court against a resolution approved on 5 July on Parliament regulations which was revoked by the […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRights to free expression and assembly11 October 2018
The Parliament of Catalonia approves a resolution condemning King Felipe VI for his actions after the 1 October referendum in which it also calls for […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court13 December 2018
The Spanish Government presented an appeal of unconstitutionality against the resolution, which reiterated the objectives of the resolution on the start of the independence process […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court7 March 2019
The Parliament of Catalonia votes to create a commission to investigate the monarchy, specifically the criminal or irregular activities of individuals linked to the Spanish […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court27 March 2019
The Constitutional Court overturns the amendment of the Presidency Law allowing for the investiture of a president of Government of Catalonia to take place remotely […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional CourtRight to political representation17 July 2019
The motion that condemned Felipe VI, brought by Catalunya en Comú-Podem, was passed in the Parlament of Catalonia, with Catalunya en Comú-Podem, JxCat and ERC […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court2 October 2019
The plenary session of the Constitutional Court overturns the creation of a commission of inquiry into the Spanish monarchy passed by theParliament of Catalonia on […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court7 October 2019
The Spanish Government is challenging the resolution passed by Parliament on 25 July once again censuring the Spanish monarchy and reaffirming the right to self-determination. […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court14 October 2019
The Spanish government challenges the resolution passed by the Parliament on 26 September defending civil and institutional disobedience as a response to the Supreme Court’s […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court22 October 2019
The Bureau of Parliament admits a motion put forth by JxCat, ERC and the CUP, condemning the Supreme Court ruling against the pro-independence leaders and […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court28 October 2019
The ‘Strategic Plan for Foreign Affairs and Relations with the European Union 2019-2022’ adopted by the Government of Catalonia on 25 June is challengedbefore the […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtViolation of autonomy29 October 2019
The Bureau of Parliament allows debate on a motion presented by the CUP calling on Parliament to reiterate its will to exercise the right of […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court12 November 2019
With the goal of avoiding the Constitutional Court’s foreseeable ban, the president of Parliament, Roger Torrent, calls an early start to the plenary session that […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court18 December 2019
The Constitutional Court overturns the resolutions passed by the Parliament of Catalonia on 25 July and 26 September that once again censured the monarchy and […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court14 October 2021
Some parents of the Turó del Drac school in Canet de Mar had requested from the Minister of Education a minimum of 50% Spanish be […]
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Catalan languagePoliticisation of justice12 September 2022
Pau Juvillà, former CUP MP in the Parliament of Catalonia, had appealed for protection against the decision of the Secretariat-General of the Parliament of Catalonia […]
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Central Electoral BoardPoliticised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trialRights to free expression and assembly10 October 2022
The court overturns the Provincial Court of Barcelona’s decision to uphold the dismissal of the complaint the photojournalist filed after having been injured by a […]
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Right to a fair trialRights to free expression and assembly15 November 2022
The appeal had been presented on 16 November against the Central Electoral Board’s (JEC) decision not to include the two MEPs on the list of […]
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Central Electoral BoardPoliticisation of justice