The agenda also asked the Head of Government to initiate the discussion of the state of the nation on the same day for the first time since 2015. President of the Generalitat, Ximo Puigjoined The 35th edition of the summer courses of the Complutense University of Madrid in San Lorenzo del Escorial. Consell president took to this forum federal and decentralized discourseIn favor of Spain’s Spain.
The most innovative element of his speech is that he outlined this federal path in a far-reaching reform of the Senate.. “In the short term, we must carry out a pragmatic reform of the Senate with all the means of federalization at our disposal. But the ultimate solution lies in an appropriate interpretation of the German model. The need a new Senate that gives legislative responsibility to communities”.
There is a sentence that sums up the essence of speech: “If Autonomies is a State, we must decide on the State.”. This is the part that requires imitating the German model, because in the Bundesrat the Länder (regions) have to agree directly with the federal government on laws affecting their powers.
He also referred to the German example to demand a constitutional reform that rooted autonomy in the depths of the Magna Carta. They are a tangential element that no longer even has a name of its own. The socialist baron said, “What makes the German federal loyalty possible is the structuring of Germany as a Federation of States, among the inviolable articles of the Constitution.”
Therefore, he said, “in the long run – I propose that the Constitution grant the same existential status to autonomous communities, in addition to defining the Spanish nation as indivisible, indivisible and the common homeland of all Spaniards.” This will reduce legal uncertainties and, in his view, increase regional cooperation.
Puig insisted that: to the federation “not to leave. It is the opposite of independence: federation is unification.. And urged to take advantage of what happened during the pandemic. “In practice, federalism has advanced more in the last 2 years in Europe and Spain than in the previous 20 years.. Now we must enjoy this moment. And you have to be ambitious. We must institutionalize this way of governing Spain.”.
Puig’s diagnosis of Spain is this: “lack of cohesion and excess of trench”. The recipe: federal loyalty. And he did so by quoting Pasqual Maragall: “Either Spain is all the peoples that compose it, or Spain is nobody”.
References to Madrid’s centrality and vacuum of resources were never lacking. Therefore, he demanded that priority be given to the ‘real Spain’ over the radio. “The Mediterranean corridor is the best example. We have to leave the mileage at zero. On maps, places and minds”. And finally, celebrating the National Day in cities other than Madrid (not new) has slipped.
Source: Informacion
