Obsolete Constitution ?, by Eulàlia Vintró

On the sixth of December forty three years of the approval of the Spanish Constitution that put an end to the Franco regime and its dictatorship. Obviously, the referendum held throughout Spain enjoyed wide participation everywhere, except in the Basque Country, where less than half of the population voted. Catalonia exceeded sixty percent of voters and valued the new legal framework very positively. The Constitution, drawn up by consensus among the various parliamentary forces, did not respond to the specific aspirations of any party but to the respective assignments, in order to reach a common proposal. In addition, and taking into account the Spanish constitutional history of the 19th century, all the speakers made an effort to draft a text that admits different interpretations, more of the right or more of the left, depending on the parliamentary majorities that were produced in each election.

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