Autonomous communities of Spain | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-02

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Autonomous communities of Spain


00:01:43 1 Autonomous communities
00:01:52 1.1 Autonomous cities
00:02:01 2 History
00:02:10 2.1 Background
00:07:34 2.2 Constitution of 1978
00:13:56 2.3 Autonomic pacts
00:21:04 2.4 Current state of affairs
00:22:32 2.4.1 Tensions within the system
00:25:17 2.4.2 Independence process in Catalonia
00:27:29 3 Constitutional and statutory framework
00:28:13 3.1 The Statute of Autonomy
00:29:39 3.2 Institutional organization
00:32:31 3.3 Legal powers
00:36:13 3.4 Degree of financial autonomy
00:39:16 3.5 Spending
00:40:29 3.6 Linguistic regimes
00:42:42 3.7 Subdivisions
00:45:00 3.8 Competences of the autonomous governments
00:45:40 4 See also
00:46:01 5 Notes



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In Spain, an autonomous community (Spanish: comunidad autónoma, Basque: autonomia erkidegoa, Catalan: comunitat autònoma, Galician: comunidade autónoma, Occitan: comunautat autonòma) is a first-level political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain.Spain is not a federation, but a highly decentralized unitary state. While sovereignty is vested in the nation as a whole, represented in the central institutions of government, the nation has, in variable degrees, devolved power to the communities, which, in turn, exercise their right to self-government within the limits set forth in the constitution and their autonomous statutes. Each community has its own set of devolved powers; typically those communities with a stronger local nationalism have more powers; this type of devolution has been called asymmetrical. Some scholars have referred to the resulting system as a federal system in all but name, or a "federation without federalism".
There are 17 autonomous communities and two autonomous cities that are collectively known as "autonomies". The two autonomous cities have the right to become autonomous communities, but neither has yet exercised it. This unique framework of territorial administration is known as the "State of Autonomies".The autonomous communities are governed according to the constitution and their own organic laws known as Statutes of Autonomy, which contain all the competences that they assume. Since devolution was intended to be asymmetrical in nature, the scope of competences vary for each community, but all have the same parliamentary structure.