The Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, defended this Monday that the current territorial model in Spain is “totally unfinished” and that a “common reflection” is necessary to address a review of the current autonomous system. He recalled that the lack of political recognition of “the plurinational reality of the state” was the most crucial problem “still unresolved” in Spain. For this reason, as a solution, he has put forward his proposal to convene a “Constitutional Convention”, published last week in an article in EL PAÍS and described as “an instrument that allows, through dialogue, to reach agreement on the scope of the plurinational nature of the State “To achieve” is intended to be “negotiation and agreement” between all parties.
Urkullu has tried to introduce concepts such as “national reality”, “popular sovereignty” and “pluralism” into the political debate, with the aim of opening a debate on the need for agreement on a new state model. There he made his latest offer to reach an agreement between the state and the “historic nationalities” (regarding the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia) that would involve an “updating of the agreed interpretation” of the content of the Constitution and a change in the territory enables model. His goal, he said, is to stimulate reflection on the “real reform” of the current autonomous system that “restores the spirit of what the transition was intended to be but ultimately was not.”
Iñigo Urkullu during the conclusion of the UPV-EHU summer course this Tuesday.Javier Hernandez Juantegui
This Tuesday, the Lehendakari concluded a summer course at the University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV) on “The Challenges of Federalism and the Spanish Autonomy System”, which took place at the Miramar Palace in San Sebastián and was led by the Professor of Constitutional Law from the above called Alberto López Basaguren University. The Basque president presented himself in this academic forum as an “inclusive nationalist” whose principles are “to be humanistic, to apply social justice and to advocate for environmental protection”. Regarding the open debate on the challenges facing the Spanish autonomy system, Urkullu has defended a political model based on “plural federalism”, although he regrets that he finds “no explicit reference” to it in the constitutional text which Spain can refer to”. constituted as a federal state and built from the ground up.”
The July 23 general elections have opened an “opportunity” for a transformation of Spain’s current political system, according to Urkullu, although he has explained that there remain “difficulties” in accepting the plurality of identities and feelings of belonging with “democratic self-evidence.” “national”. “There is nothing wrong with accepting that there are different opinions and feelings,” he stressed.
More recently, Urkullu has proposed “alternatives” to the current territorial model based on a confederal system of the state, such as the “Foral Nation”, the development of European regulations for nations without a state or the application of the “principle of”. Subsidiarity”, which allows the Basque Country a unique status as an “associated region” within the EU. “All these proposals aim to achieve meeting points on a federal model that recognizes the existence of collective identities,” he explained.
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He has not shied away from discussing “other forms” of political organization in Spain, although he has asked for “the will” to “embrace the plurinational reality of the state” and to overcome the “resistance” that currently exists. Among these obstacles, Urkullu emphasized that “the separation of powers is unreal,” that the judiciary “follows the parameters of a unitary state,” that the Senate “is detached from federal reality and is not a chamber of territorial representation, and so on.” The Autonomous Communities “are not considered political actors in the EU.” “Given these problems, it is difficult for the autonomous state to embark on a federalization process,” he said.
In his opinion, the defense of the Constitution is confused with a “concept of unity and uniformity of Spain” that “perverts the origin and spirit of the transition”. Urkullu encouraged to address “without fear” and “through agreement” a real reform of the current territorial model that recognizes “the plurinational reality” of Spain. “If we dare, we will not regret it,” he concluded.
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