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Under the title “Unfinished Spain. The territorial conflict” the Espacio Público Foundation began a debate on April 2 that aims to address the inequalities and deficiencies of the current State of the Autonomies. This debate was opened with some reflections from the director of the foundation, Ignacio Muro.
As a culmination of this debate held for several months, a round table with the participation of representatives of various political parties will be held on the 6th at the Caixa Forum in Madrid, Paseo del Prado 36, in which an assessment of the situation of the State will be made. of the Autonomies.
We reproduce below the text by Ignacio Muro that opened the debate.
A decisive debate for the left
The purpose of the debate that arises is to address the inequalities and democratic and functional deficiencies of the current State of the Autonomies. It responds to the growing concern generated by the persistence of the blockade to carry out any constitutional reform, a situation that is accentuating and chronicling the current deficiencies.
The institutional deficits are evident: on the one hand, the impossibility of specifying the profile of the nationalities recognized in the online Constitution of a plurinational Spain, on the other, the blockage for the Senate to assume being a territorial chamber. These are constitutional reforms that are expected to remain blocked, at least, for much of the next decade.
It happens that, in the “meanwhile”, historical inertias (centralism, despotism, particularism) and spontaneous market forces (downward fiscal struggles to raise capital) are being given an opportunity to do their work. The result is that territorial differences grow in the essential services of the Welfare State, with health as a negative paradigm; Each drought reminds us of the inability to find multilateral solutions to the water conflict, essential in the face of climate change; The solution to the housing problem is lost between institutional blockages and the minimum vital income is dissolved between overlapping bureaucracies.
The absence of horizontal collaboration programs between the Autonomous Communities and the proliferation of vertical unilateralism and “what’s wrong with me” in relation to the State government or the accumulation of economic power in the Community of Madrid… draw a State with difficulties to face the great challenges that technological, demographic and environmental transitions pose to us as a country.
The discomfort of the state left with the territorial question is evident. Crossed by conflicting feelings, they are not capable of maturing a consistent federal reference that overcomes centralist impulses and, at the same time, complements or serves as a counterweight to the confederal or sovereign left of Catalonia, Euskadi or Galicia and other communities. As a result, they lose weight, sometimes simultaneously, in internal Spain and in nationalities. It affects the PSOE, but, above all, the forces located to its left, especially wounded by the territorial fragmentation and localism that have led to the autonomous state.
To address this situation, the Espacio Público y Público Foundation proposes holding a debate in which a balance of the situation of the State of the Autonomies is promoted through the participation of experts from the political, journalistic, academic, etc. fields.
Moderator: Ignacio Muro. Director of the Public Space Foundation.
They intervene:
Marina Subirats. Emeritus Professor in Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Mertxe Aizpurua. EH Bildu deputy in Congress.
Joan Romero. Emeritus professor at the University of Valencia and author of “Unfinished Spain.”
Roberto Uriarte. Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of the Basque Country (Vamos).
Javier Pérez Royo. Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Seville.
Monserrat Colldeforms. Economist expert in public financing.
Teresa Rodriguez. Spokesperson and leader of Adelante Andalucía.
Joan Bottle. Professor of Political Science (UAB) and member of the Association for a Federal Spain.
Amanda Meyer. Lawyer and member of the federal leadership of Izquierda Unida.
Alberto López Basaguren. Vice President of the Association for a Federal Spain and professor of Constitutional Law at the University of the Basque Country.
Carme Valls. Doctor and vice president of Federalistes de Esquerres.
Marina Llansana Rosich. Journalist, philologist and former member of the Parliament of Catalonia.
Goretti Sanmartín. Mayor of Santiago de Campostela (BNG).
Juan Carlos Monedero. Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid. Co-founder of Podemos.
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