The Government reaches agreements with Cantabria, Catalonia, Extremadura and Navarra to avoid unconstitutionality appeals

MADRID, 4 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

During the month of October, the Ministry of Territorial Policy has reached six agreements with Cantabria, Catalonia, Extremadura (three agreements) and Navarra to avoid taking to the Constitutional Court rules on which there were conflicts of jurisdiction.

With Catalonia, the department headed by Isabel Rodríguez announced an agreement in October on the decree that modifies the law on non-referendum popular consultations and other forms of participation so as not to file appeals of unconstitutionality on certain precepts.

Specifically, both administrations have agreed in interpreting that in the institutional initiative provided for in article 4.3.f of the law, the reference to "interests" is connected with the powers of the Generalitat of Catalonia and has the scope set by the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court.

Likewise, both parties agree in interpreting that the calls for non-referendum popular consultations of a supra-municipal territorial scope referred to in the aforementioned precept have the purpose of obtaining the opinion of the legitimate persons on a certain action, decision or public policy that belongs to the scope of the regional powers of the Generalitat de Catalunya, without affecting, therefore, the powers of local entities or undermine local autonomy. THREE AGREEMENTS WITH EXTREMADURA

With Extremadura, one of these agreements is on the decree of urgent quality measures in public procurement for economic reactivation, solving the competence doubts related to article 3, the first section of the second additional provision and the second section of the provision additional second.

Regarding the decree that regulates the actions of the Board and establishes urgent measures in response to the displacement of people for humanitarian reasons due to the war in Ukraine, urgent public procurement measures and fiscal measures in Extremadura, both parties have agreed on a commitment on the single additional provision.

And, on the law of measures to face the demographic and territorial challenge, both parties have also solved what has to do with the discrepancies regarding the second and fourth sections of the provision.

The Navarrese decree that adopts urgent measures in response to the economic and social consequences of the war in Ukraine has also been submitted to an agreement, extinguishing the precept that is the subject of the controversy.

Regarding the Cantabria law of minor local entities, the central Executive has announced that the Cantabrian Government has assumed the commitment to promote the legislative modification of articles 10.4 and 12.4 of the law in its next law of measures and accompaniment for 2023.