State intervention in decentralized Spain: the case and the case law

Authors

  • Pedro Cruz Villalón Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/redc.120.01

Abstract

For the first time in 40 years, the erratic declaration of independence occurred in Catalonia in 2017 has triggered the State intervention of an Autonomous Community as provided in Article 155 of the 1978 Constitution (“state coercion”). By way of a principled case law, the Constitutional Court has seized the opportunity to reduce the open-ended character of the constitutional provision. Both, the case and the case law, allow now for an appraisal, not purely in the abstract, of the possibilities and the limits of this manner of response to critical conflicts in decentralized Spain.

Published

2020-12-21