The pandemic has strengthened the autonomous state and dialogue, according to experts
The COVID-19 pandemic “seems to have strengthened “at certain times the State of the autonomies and the mechanisms of dialogue between administrations, at the same time that it has shown the “scarce” unity of the parties even in a crisis situation. This is what the XXXI Report of the Autonomous Communities of the IDP Public Law Observatory, An exhaustive analysis of the regional reality and its relations with the central State that has been published for 31 years, referring this time to 2020, prepared by more than thirty professors and professors of Constitutional, Administrative and International Law from different universities.
The report, directed by the professors of Constitutional Law Eliseo Aja, from the University of Barcelona, and Javier García Roca, from the Complutense University of Madrid, and presented this Thursday in the Senate, is framed in “the coronavirus and its serious consequences”, since “the year 2020 – he affirms – has had the coronavirus as its nerve center, which has altered the regular functioning of the entire State.” He assures that “the health emergency has shown a lack of commitment and evidence of disunity in exceptional moments that demanded unitary political directions “and that, while the unity of the parties has been “quite scarce”, “The autonomous state seems to have strengthened in the decentralized phase of the alarm where the autonomous communities they have assumed important responsibilities. “
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