Ibarretxe plan
The Ibarretxe Plan (official name: Propuesta de Estatuto Político de la Comunidad de Euskadi ; German: proposal on the political status of the Community of the Basque Country ) provided for the Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country to reform from 1979, in order to gain more independence and ultimately superior to become. The plan was named after its herald, Juan José Ibarretxe , the then Lehendakari (President) of the Basque Country.
content
The plan envisaged a new statute of autonomy based on three pillars:
- The Basque people are European people with their own identity.
- The right of the Basque people to choose their own future, understood as the right to self-determination .
- The decisions of the citizens of every region of the Basque Country ( Autonomous Community of the Basque Country , Navarre , French Basque Country or Iparralde , see also Basque Country ) should be accepted by the other peoples of Europe.
In addition, he proposes a number of reforms:
- Freedom of relations with Navarre and the French Basque Country based on the choices made by each of the regions.
- An autonomous jurisdiction.
- Spain should guarantee direct representation in the EU , as is the case in the Netherlands , Belgium and the German federal states .
- Guarantees that the new statute cannot be unilaterally restricted or canceled. To this end, the Tribunal Constitucional (constitutional court) is to be adapted and a bilateral commission for conflict resolution created; Treaties and international agreements affecting the Basque Country are confirmed by it before they enter into force.
- Recognition of the Basque citizenship and nationality of all residents of this community in order for them to obtain dual citizenship, Spanish and Basque. Obtaining one or the other citizenship does not reduce or increase rights and obligations.
- Official Basque sports selections
- Exclusive competence in public administration, education, culture, sport, language policy, finance, housing, environment, infrastructure, transport, public security, work and social security.
Excluded: defense, civil, commercial and criminal legislation (excluding autonomous civil law and the contracts of public administration), merchant navy, access to Spanish nationality (immigration, asylum law ...), production, trade, possession of weapons and explosives, air surveillance and Foreign policy.
The Ibarretxe plan greatly expands the existing autonomy rights and would lead to extensive independence for the Basque Country (Spain would become a de facto confederation).
course
The plan was announced by Ibarretxe in September 2001 in the Basque Parliament and presented on October 25, 2003. The Basque Parliament adopted it on December 30, 2004 with an absolute majority of 39 to 35 votes and decided to refer it to the Spanish Parliament . In January 2005, the Basque Speaker of Parliament forwarded the plan to the Speaker of the Spanish Parliament for debate and vote. On February 1, 2005 he was elected with 313 votes against ( PSOE , PP , United Left , Canarian Coalition and CHA ) to 29 votes in favor ( PNV , ERC , CiU , EA , Na-Bai and BNG ) with 2 abstentions ( IC -V ) rejected.
On September 28, 2007, Ibarretxe announced that it would hold a referendum in October 2008 on the “political future” of the Basque Country. The socialists refused to resume the plan because the terrorist organization ETA - which had officially spoken out against this statute of autonomy precisely because it did not guarantee the full independence of the Basque Country - officially ended its ceasefire in June 2007.
Web links
- The new Statute for the Basque Country (English)
- The new statute for the Basque Country (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ elmundo.es - ETA graba un vídeo en el que rechaza el 'plan Ibarretxe' y defiende el uso de la violencia. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau : A referendum - despite the ETA terror of September 29, 2007.