nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20161123-135549 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 161123s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20161123-135549 doi eng 342 23 Azpitarte, Miguel Author aut Catalonian Independentism, the Spanish Constitutional Court and the Perils of the Middle Way Azpitarte, Miguel Verfassungsblog 2016-11-23 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Spanish Law 15/2015 (Organic Law) was a key element of the last Government of Mariano Rajoy in his fight against Catalonian Independentism. It gives the Spanish Constitutional Court a new executive power to suspend temporally a democratic authority if it does not obey a Constitutional Court’s resolution. A recent decision of the Spanish Constitutional Court has validated the Bill on the idea that the Court must have special deference to the legislature whenever the judgment is on the statute that regulates the jurisdiction of Court. The Court solves the dispute without a deep discussion on the merits. Once again the Spanish Court leaves a feeling of intellectual fragility. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Catalonia Independence Judicial Review Spanish Constitutional Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/catalonian-independentism-the-spanish-constitutional-court-and-the-perils-of-the-middle-way/ raw object