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Josep Vendrell
is Secretary General of the
Iniciativa per Catalunya
Verds (Catalan Green Party)
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ralism
However, the principal failing of the Spanish feder- The strategy of the Catalonian political forces has
al system is the lack of a federal culture: the lack of been to, firstly, promote an autonomist and federalist
appreciation and generosity that the central State reading of the Constitution and then, subsequently, in
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federalism:
the face of the limits of this approach, to drive reforms
of the Autonomy Statute, which was then emulated
by other regions in order to federalise the State without having to reform the constitution, a process for
which it would have been difficult to achieve the required majorities.
The new 2006 Autonomy Statute was passed by more
than a two-thirds majority in the Catalonian Parliament as well as in the General Courts and, whilst it
was rejected by the PP, it was ratified by the Catalonian population in a referendum which reflected the
aspirations of Catalonia to be recognised as a nation,
to secure more protection for the Catalonian language, for more and more secure legislative competencies and for a more just financing system.
It is a federalism tied to
radical democratic values, to
freedom, solidarity and the
close relation between the
republican and lay traditions.
Plurinational federalism aims
to recognise national diversity
as well as the multicultural
character of society, in opposition as much to that branch of
nationalism that identifies the
nation with the state as to that
which does not recognise the
cultural diversity of its own
society.
In Europe the 21st century
must be the century in which
shared sovereignty supercedes
the logic of national sovereignty.
Conflicting legitimacies
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ralism
In the face of the Catalonian rejection of the constitutional framework and in the context of the difficulties
and conflicts which could bring about a secession, it
could be reasonable to look for solutions along the
lines of those found in Quebec, where two referenda on sovereignty sparked new agreements between
Quebec and Canada, or like in Great Britain, where a
referendum on Scottish independence will be accom-
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