37 posts during 2003 - 2008: Reform of the Statute
13 November 2003
The president of Spain, Rodríguez Zapatero (PSOE), in the heat of the campaigns for the Catalan elections, promises to support the Statute approved by the […]
16 November 2003
The results are as follows: CiU (Mas) 46 seats, PSC (Maragall) 42 seats, ERC (Carod-Rovira) 23 seats, PP (Piqué) 15 seats, ICV – EUiA (Saura) […]
16 December 2003
Pasqual Maragall is invested as the 127th President of the Government of Catalonia thanks to the Tinell Pact between the PSC, ERC and ICV – […]
9 February 2004
There will be representatives from the CiU, PSC, ERC, ICV and EUiA.
11 March 2004
A series of explosions in Madrid commuter trains take place that result in 193 deaths and around two thousand wounded. The jihadist attacks take place […]
14 March 2004
In these general elections, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s PSOE has prevailed over the PP, now led by Mariano Rajoy, which has lost its absolute majority.
16 April 2004
The PSOE, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, Izquierda Unida, BNG, Coalición Canaria and Chunta Aragonesista vote in Congress in favour of the investiture of José Luis […]
2 November 2004
The European Court of Human Rights sentences Spain to pay damages to the 15 applicants, victims of mistreatment during the arrests of the Garzón Operation. […]
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Politicisation of justiceRight to a fair trialRights to free expression and assembly30 September 2005
The Parliament approves the text with all the parties in favour except the PP. The text is approved with 120 votes in favour and 15 […]
19 October 2005
The Bureau of the Congress of Deputies (PSOE, CiU, Izquierda Unida) accepts the proposal to amend the Statute submitted by the Parliament of Catalonia and […]
24 October 2005
Mariano Rajoy’s PPis presenting the reform of the Statute of Catalonia as a covert constitutional reform and are claiming that all citizens of the Spanish […]
2 November 2005
The proposal is submitted by a delegation of three speakers from the Parliament of Catalonia: Artur Mas (CiU), Manuela de Madre (PSC) and Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira […]
2 November 2005
The Partido Popular’s parliamentary group in Congress, led by Mariano Rajoy, submits an appeal for protection to the Constitutional Court against the agreements of the […]
21 January 2006
Zapatero and Mas reach an agreement on the amendments to the text of the Statute drawn up by the State – Government of Catalonia Joint […]
31 January 2006
Mariano Rajoy’s Partido Popular starts to collect signatures to demand a statewide referendum on the reform of the Statute of Catalonia.
15 March 2006
The Constitutional Court did not accept the appeal of the Partido Popular group in Congress against the decisions of the Bureau to admit the proposal […]
30 March 2006
The new text of the Statute is approved with the votes of PSOE, CiU, IU- ICV, PNB, BNG and CC-NC. The PP, ERC and EA […]
25 April 2006
The motion in Congress is accompanied by more than 4 million signatures. The question that Mariano Rajoy’s PP is proposing for the referendum on the […]
10 May 2006
The Statute is approved by the Senate with votes in favour from the PSOE, CiU, ICV, PNB, CC, Izquierda Unida and BNG. The PP voted […]
11 May 2006
The President of the Government of Catalonia, Pasqual Maragall (PSC), dismisses the ERC ministers because of the party’s position against the reform of the Statute […]
16 May 2006
All the other parties in Congress vote against the proposal submitted by the PP, led by Mariano Rajoy, to hold a referendum on the Statute […]
18 May 2006
The president of the Catalan Government, Pasqual Maragall, signs the decree calling for the referendum on the reform of the Statute, which is set for […]
18 June 2006
CiU, PSC and ICV are campaigning in favour. The PP and ERC are campaigning against it. The results are: 72.9% of the votes in favour […]
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 Court9 August 2006
The Statute enters into force after being sanctioned by the King on 19 July.
19 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 Court1 November 2006
First Catalan elections since the approval of the Statute of Catalonia. Artur Mas’s CiU wins with 48 seats, but fails to form a government and […]
23 November 2006
Entesa Nacional pel Progrés, a tripartite government made up of the PSC, ERC and ICV. José Montilla is invested as president of the Government of […]
9 May 2007
The young man had filed a lawsuit against the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Policía Nacional for torture in the course of his arrest on April […]
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Prison regimeRights to free expression and assembly21 January 2008
The Supreme Court convicts the former president of the Basque Parliament Juan María Atutxa and the former members of the Kontxi Bilbao and Gorka Knorr […]
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Free parliamentary debateRight to a fair trialRight to political representation9 March 2008
The PSOE prevails again over Mariano Rajoy’s PP in the general elections. On 11 April, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is sworn in as president of […]
10 July 2008
The prison sentence that the National High Court issued for Roura and Stern for the crime of lèse majesté is eventually replaced by a fine […]
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Politicisation of justiceRights to free expression and assembly