The Spanish State structure
Estado de las Autonomías, a federal structure?
Thesis for the Department of European Studies
Subject: Statelaw
University of Amsterdam
Mentors: Mr. J.H. Reestman & Drs. M. Spiering
March 1998
Author: Kees Plas
Dublin
Eire
Email plaske@indigo.ie
Contents
Introduction
I Central Government
Parliament
Congress
Senate
Functions
Powers directed at the autonomous communities
Parliamentary control
The executive
The King
The Prime Minister
The Ministers
Competencies
Governmental representation at regional level
Governmental control
II The Judiciary and the Constitutional Tribunal
Judicial independence
Judicial Structure
The General Council of the Judiciary
Supreme Court
Regional Higher Courts of justice
The Attorney General’s Office
The Ombudsman
The Constitutional Tribunal
The role of the judiciary in the regional process
III The Autonomous Communities
The autonomous concept
Historical background
The Procedures of obtaining autonomy
Short procedure
Regular procedure
Special procedure
The coming about
Navarre
Structure of the autonomous communities
Public administration
Regional assemblies
The President
Regional executive
The regional high courts of justice
Police
Competencies
Financing of the autonomous communities
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