Statute of Autonomy of Andalusia

<h2 id="1981-statute-of-autonomy">1981 Statute of Autonomy</h2>
Article 1 of the original Andalusian Statute of Autonomy, also known as the Statute of Carmona (<a href="/facts/Spanish_language/95BgYNfv">Spanish</a>: Estatuto de Carmona) declares that Andalusian autonomy is justified by the "historical identity, on the self-government that the Constitution permits every nationality, on outright equality to the rest of the nationalities and regions that compose Spain, and with a power that emanates from the Andalusian Constitution and people, reflected in its Statute of Autonomy."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1">1</a>
The Statute declared <a href="/facts/Blas_Infante/GJWDQq7D">Blas Infante</a> the "Father of the Andalusian Homeland" ("Padre de la Patria Andaluza"). The Statute of Autonomy spells out Andalusia's distinct institutions of government and administration. Chief among these is the <a href="/facts/Andalusian_Autonomous_Government/s6sQQomL">Andalusian Autonomous Government</a> (Junta de Andalucía). Other institutions specified in the Statute are the Defensor del Pueblo Andaluz (lit. 'Defender of the Andalusian People', basically an <a href="/facts/Ombudsperson/UHal49Fr">ombudsperson</a>), the Consultative Council, the Chamber of Accounts, the Audiovisual Council of Andalusia, and the Economic and Social Council.

<h2 id="2007-statute-of-autonomy">2007 Statute of Autonomy</h2>
In October 2006, the constitutional commission of the <a href="/facts/Cortes_Generales/7ujhC4u7">Cortes Generales</a> (the national legislature of Spain), with favorable votes from the left-of-center <a href="/facts/Spanish_Socialist_Workers%2527_Party/6TloKKJ8">Spanish Socialist Workers' Party</a> (PSOE), the leftist <a href="/facts/United_Left_(Spain)/VK3loXdM">United Left</a> (IU) and the right-of-center <a href="/facts/People%2527s_Party_(Spain)/FwluwJFK">People's Party</a> (PP), approved a new Statute of Autonomy for Andalusia.
On November 2, 2006, the Spanish Chamber Deputies ratified the text of the Constitutional Commission with 306 votes in favor, none opposed, and 2 abstentions. This was the first time a Spanish <a href="/facts/Organic_Law_(Spain)/HtGlwsTn">Organic Law</a> adopting a Statute of Autonomy was approved with no opposing votes. The Senate, in a plenary session of December 20, 2006, ratified the referendum to be voted upon by the Andalusian public.
The new statute speaks of Andalusia as a "historic nationality" (Spanish: nacionalidad histórica). It also cites the 1919 <a href="/facts/Andalusian_nationalism/8W1jVF64">Andalusian nationalist</a> <a href="/facts/Assembly_of_C%25C3%25B3rdoba/5X4Tyoy2">Manifesto of Córdoba</a> describing Andalusia as a "national reality" (realidad nacional), but does not endorse that formulation. Article 1 of the earlier 1981 Statute of Autonomy defined it simply as a "nationality" (nacionalidad).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2">2</a>
On February 18, 2007, the statute was put to <a href="/facts/Andalusian_constitutional_referendum%2c_2007/18C4X4JB">a referendum</a>. The portion of the Andalusian populace (a turnout of 35.85%) that went to the polls overwhelmingly approved the new statute.
In October 2006 the constitutional commission of the <a href="/facts/Cortes_Generales/7ujhC4u7">Cortes Generales</a> (the national legislature of Spain), with favorable votes from the PSOE, the IU and the PP, approved a new Statute of Autonomy for Andalusia, whose preamble refers to the community as a "<a href="/facts/Nationalities_and_regions_of_Spain/1Doj3YPj">national reality</a>" (realidad nacional):

<blockquote>The Andalusianist Manifesto of Córdoba described Andalusia as a national reality in 1919, whose spirit the Andalusians took up outright through the process of self-government recognized in our Magna Carta. In 1978 the Andalusians broadly backed the constitutional consensus. Today, the Constitution, in its Article 2, recognizes Andalusia as a nationality as part of the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a>— Andalusian Statute of Autonomy on Wikisource, in Spanish</blockquote>
On November 2, 2006, the Spanish Chamber Deputies ratified the text of the Constitutional Commission with 306 votes in favor, none opposed, and 2 abstentions. This was the first time a Spanish <a href="/facts/Organic_Law_(Spain)/HtGlwsTn">Organic Law</a> adopting a Statute of Autonomy was approved with no opposing votes. The Senate, in a plenary session of December 20, 2006, ratified the referendum to be voted upon by the Andalusian public February 18, 2007.
The Statute of Autonomy spells out Andalusia's distinct institutions of government and administration. Chief among these is the <a href="/facts/Andalusian_Autonomous_Government/s6sQQomL">Andalusian Autonomous Government</a> (Junta de Andalucía). Other institutions specified in the Statute are the Defensor del Pueblo Andaluz (literally "Defender of the Andalusian People", basically an <a href="/facts/Ombudsperson/UHal49Fr">ombudsperson</a>), the Consultative Council, the Chamber of Accounts, the Audiovisual Council of Andalusia, and the Economic and Social Council.
The Andalusian Statute of Autonomy recognizes <a href="/facts/Seville/weWX4eIK">Seville</a> as the region's capital.
The new Statute of Autonomy was promulgated March 19, 2007.

<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

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<a href="/facts/Wikisource/TrMdylNf">Wikisource</a> has original text related to this article:
Estatuto de Autonomía de Andalucia 1981

<a href="/facts/Wikisource/TrMdylNf">Wikisource</a> has original text related to this article:
Estatuto de Autonomía de Andalucía 2007

<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061215122757/http://www.andaluciajunta.es/SP/AJ/CDA/Secciones/ServicioNoticias/Documentos/I30-10-2006.pdf">Estatuto de Andalucía</a> on the site of the <a href="/facts/Andalusian_Autonomous_Government/s6sQQomL">Andalusian Autonomous Government</a></li></ul>

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<li id="fn:1">"identidad histórica, en el autogobierno que la Constitución permite a toda nacionalidad, en plena igualdad al resto de nacionalidades y regiones que compongan España, y con un poder que emana de la Constitución y el pueblo andaluz reflejado en su Estatuto de Autonomía." <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">El Manifiesto andalucista de Córdoba describió a Andalucía como realidad nacional en 1919, cuyo espíritu los andaluces encauzaron plenamente a través del proceso de autogobierno recogido en nuestra Carta Magna. En 1978 los andaluces dieron un amplio respaldo al consenso constitucional. Hoy, la Constitución, en su artículo 2, reconoce a Andalucía como una nacionalidad en el marco de la unidad indisoluble de la nación española. Andalusian Statute of Autonomy on Wikisource, in Spanish. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Estatuto_de_Autonom%C3%ADa_de_Andaluc%C3%ADa_2007" target="_blank">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Estatuto_de_Autonom%C3%ADa_de_Andaluc%C3%ADa_2007</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">El Manifiesto andalucista de Córdoba describió a Andalucía como realidad nacional en 1919, cuyo espíritu los andaluces encauzaron plenamente a través del proceso de autogobierno recogido en nuestra Carta Magna. En 1978 los andaluces dieron un amplio respaldo al consenso constitucional. Hoy, la Constitución, en su artículo 2, reconoce a Andalucía como una nacionalidad en el marco de la unidad indisoluble de la nación española. Andalusian Statute of Autonomy on Wikisource, in Spanish. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Estatuto_de_Autonom%C3%ADa_de_Andaluc%C3%ADa_2007" target="_blank">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Estatuto_de_Autonom%C3%ADa_de_Andaluc%C3%ADa_2007</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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Statute of Autonomy of Andalusia