Galicia: the autonomy that, foreseen as a privilege, wanted to be frustrate as a discriminationd. A brief note

Abstract

The Spanish decentralisation process was the result of ideologically non-coincidental and sometimes even conflicting tendencies which meant that the final implementation of the constitutional provisions depended to a large extent on political decisions and party pacts which, on more than one occasion, resulted in regulatory changes of unquestionable importance. The process that led to the approval of the Galician Statute and the constitution of the corresponding Autonomous Community was, as this text aims to explain, an outstanding example of the aforementioned twists and turns: Galicia should have gained access to autonomy through a privileged route that at the time, although unsuccessfully, attempted to denaturalise itself...

Keywords:

Galicia, autonomy, Spain, privilege, discrimination, autonomous policy, Constitution, decentralisation, autonomous pacts