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The Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006 (Catalan: Estatut d'Autonomia de Catalunya) provides Catalonia's basic institutional regulations under the Spanish Constitution of 1978. It defines the rights and obligations of the citizens of Catalonia, the political institutions of the Catalan community, their competences and relations with the rest of Spain, and the financing of the Government of Catalonia.[1]
This Law was approved by referendum on 18 June 2006 and supplanted the first Statute of Sau, which dated from 1979. The approval was given by the 36% of Catalan people with the right to vote. Abstention in the referendum was high: more than 50%.[2] On 28 June 2010, the Constitutional Court of Spain assessed the constitutionality of several articles of the Law,[3] rewriting 14 of them and dictating the interpretation for 27 more. That led to a massive demonstration in Barcelona of more than a million people[4][5] under the slogan in Catalan Som una nació. Nosaltres decidim (transl. "We are a nation. We decide).
- ^ "Official web of the Generalitat de Catalunya". Gencat.net. 18 June 2006. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- ^ El Estatut sale adelante, pero la participación no llega al 50%, El Mundo, 19 June 2006.
- ^ El Tribunal Constitucional dicta sentencia sobre el Estatut, El Periódico, 28 June 2010.
- ^ Catalan protesters rally for greater autonomy in Spain, BBC News, 10 July 2010.
- ^ More than 1 million protest court ruling in Barcelona, CNN, 11 July 2010.