Estatut

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 region, their competences and relations with the rest of Spain, and the financing of the Government of Catalonia.

This Law was approved by referendum on 18 June 2006 and supplanted the first Statute of Sau, which dated from 1979. Four years later, on June 28 of 2010, the Constitutional Court of Spain assessed the constitutionality of several articles of the Law, 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 under the slogan in Catalan Som una nació. Nosaltres decidim (in English, "We are a nation. We decide").

In 1919, a first project of Statute was started by the Commonwealth of Catalonia.

In 1928, a project of Constitution was written in Havana by exiled Catalan nationalists.

Catalonia first obtained a Statute of Autonomy in 1932, during the Second Spanish Republic. This law was abolished by General Francisco Franco after the Spanish Civil War, largely because Catalonia had been a region generally opposed to Franco's Nacionales forces. During periods of his rule, public usage of the Catalan language and culture, and more specifically, Catalan self-government were harshly suppressed..

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