CATALONIA AND THE POSSIBILITY OF SECESSION

Abstract

The article analyses the secessionist demand raised by the Catalan institutions in recent years within the Spanish Constitutional framework. The author describes the Spanish constitutional barriers to the secessionist challenge and offers a comparative insight on the secessionist procedures that have took place in liberal democracies. The article concludes outlining a theory on the secession in a scenario of democracy and constitutional rigidity with the background of the recent transformations in International Public Law regarding the creation of new States. In the end, a proposal on a constitutional amendment concerning the multinational accommodation in Spain is suggested