nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170927-103005 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170927s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170927-103005 doi eng 342 23 Boix Palop, Andrés Author aut The Catalunya Conundrum, Part 3: Protecting the Constitution by Violating the Constitution Boix Palop, Andrés Verfassungsblog 2017-09-27 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Lacking legitimacy in Catalonia because of the absence of solutions to Catalan democratic claims within the Spanish legal framework, the position of Spanish institutions is badly weakened. Therefore, they do not to want to take the risk of creating even more political unrest in Catalonia with public and explicit debates on the suspension of autonomy or on the necessity of limiting fundamental rights. Instead, Spanish government is pushing other institutions, such as the Constitutional Court, prosecutors, police and judges, as well as their own executive powers, beyond their ordinary limits. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Autonomy Catalonia freedom of assembly Freedom of Speech Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-catalunya-conundrum-part-3-protecting-the-constitution-by-violating-the-constitution/ raw object