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Statute of autonomy

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Nominally, a statute of autonomy (Spanish: estatuto de autonomía, Catalan: estatut d'autonomia, Galician: estatuto de autonomía, Asturian: estatutu d'autonomía, Basque: autonomia estatutua) is a law hierarchically located under the constitution of a country and, usually, over any other form of legislation. This legislative corpus concedes autonomy (self-government) to a subnational unit, and the articles usually mimic the form of a constitution, establishing the organization of the autonomous government, the electoral rules, the distribution of competences between different levels of governance and other regional-specific provisions, like the protection of cultural or lingual realities.

In Spain, the process of devolution after the transition to democracy (1979) created 17 autonomous communities and 2 autonomous cities, each having its own Statute of Autonomy. The two autonomous cities are Ceuta and Melilla, both on the north coast of Africa. On 18 June 2006, Catalonia approved by referendum a new but controversial Catalan Statute of Autonomy, enhancing the Spanish territory's degree of autonomy. The original such statute was granted by the Spanish Republic in 1932.[1]

List of autonomy statutes

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# Name Adopted Latest reform
1 Basque Country 18 December 1979 (LO 3/1979)
2 Catalonia 18 December 1979 (LO 4/1979) 19 July 2006 (LO 6/2006)
3 Galicia 6 April 1981 (LO 1/1981)
4 Andalusía 30 December 1981 (LO 6/1981) 19 March 2007 (LO 2/2007)
5 Asturias 30 December 1981 (LO 7/1981)
6 Cantabria 30 December 1981 (LO 8/1981)
7 La Rioja 9 June 1982 [es] (LO 3/1982)
8 Region of Murcia 9 June 1982 [es] (LO 4/1982)
9 Valencian Community 1 July 1982 [es; ca] (LO 5/1982) 10 April 2006 (LO 1/2006)
10 Aragon 10 August 1982 [es; an] (LO 8/1982) 20 April 2007 (LO 5/2007)
11 Castilla-La Mancha 10 August 1982 [es] (LO 9/1982)
12 Canary Islands 10 August 1982 [es] (LO 10/1982) 6 November 2018 (LO 1/2018)
13 Navarre 10 August 1982 [es] (LO 13/1982)
14 Extremadura 25 February 1983 [es; ext] (LO 1/1983) 28 January 2011 (LO 1/2011)
15 Balearic Islands 25 February 1983 (LO 2/1983) 28 February 2007 (LO 1/2007)
16 Community of Madrid 25 February 1983 [es] (LO 3/1983)
17 Castile and León 25 February 1983 [es] (LO 4/1983)
18 Ceuta 13 March 1995 (LO 1/1995)
19 Melilla 13 March 1995 (LO 2/1995)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Force, Marina, "Catalonia's Place in Spain: A Brief History" (subscription required), Wall Street Journal, 11 October 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.