Catalonian Independentism, the Spanish Constitutional Court and the Perils of the Middle Way

Catalonian Independentism, the Spanish Constitutional Court and the Perils of the Middle Way Azpitarte, Miguel Author aut Text xx# 2016 Verfassungsblog 2016-11-23 eng The Spanish Law 15/2015 (Organic Law) was a key element of the last Government of Mariano Rajoy in his fight against Catalonian Independentism. It gives the Spanish Constitutional Court a new executive power to suspend temporally a democratic authority if it does not obey a Constitutional Court’s resolution. A recent decision of the Spanish Constitutional Court has validated the Bill on the idea that the Court must have special deference to the legislature whenever the judgment is on the statute that regulates the jurisdiction of Court. The Court solves the dispute without a deep discussion on the merits. Once again the Spanish Court leaves a feeling of intellectual fragility. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Azpitarte, Miguel Catalonia Independence Judicial Review Spanish Constitutional Court 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/catalonian-independentism-the-spanish-constitutional-court-and-the-perils-of-the-middle-way/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20161123-135549 161123 10.17176/20161123-135549 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)