Iñigo Urkullu has participated in a summer course at the UPV-EHU on federalism, in which he has warned of the “serious difficulties in accepting with a certain democratic naturalness the plurality of identities and feelings of national belonging”.
Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu has raised the need to restore “the original spirit” of the transition in the Spanish state, but it has not been realized. In this sense, he has explained that this is one of the foundations underpinning his proposal for a constitutional convention, in which a methodology is developed to move towards an agreed reform of the state model.
Urkullu took part in the closing ceremony of the UPV/EHU summer course “Challenges of Federalism and the Spanish Autonomous System” at the Miramar Palace in San Sebastián on Tuesday, accompanied by the Minister of Public Administration and Self-Government, Olatz Garamendi. During his speech, he stressed that the territorial model enshrined in Spain’s 1978 Constitution is “obviously incomplete”.
In addition, it has indicated that the spirit of transition passed through common autonomous communities and historical national realities, as stated in the Constitution itself. “This differentiation identifies the historical communities that knew their own reality of self-government before the 1978 Constitution, that is, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia,” he stressed. In this sense, he emphasized that, in the case of the Basque Country, this is included in the first additional provision of the Constitution, as well as in the only additional provision of the Gernika Statute.
The lehendakari has explained that he has presented the constitutional convention as a tool for reaching agreement on the meaning and scope of the plurinational character of the state through dialogue, negotiation and agreement. He also recalls that during his tenure he made several proposals to seek a territorial affiliation and meeting points with the terrain of a “federal road”.
In this sense, Urkullu reflected on what makes the Spanish state model difficult and what distances it from the liberal federations of developed countries, concluding by pointing out that the outcome of this process will “go hand in hand with the agreement”, adding that for this “we must dare, without fear”.
Source: EITB
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