Galician Statute of Autonomy of 1981
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The Galician Statute of Autonomy (Estatuto de Galiza in Galician), is the institutional norm of Galicia. The Spanish Constitution of 1978, the Galician Statute of Autonomy, recognized the condition of historical nationality to this autonomous autonomy. Says that the powers in which it is based are the Constitution and the Galician People. Establishes a democratic pact of solidarity between the people that conforms Galicia.
It has a precedent in the Galician Statute of Autonomy of 1936, approved June 28 of 1936 by majority if a referendum, when the prime minister during Spanish Second Republic was Galician Santiago Casares Quiroga. Campaign for approvation was spectacular. It claimed attention all around the world. Posters of Castelao, Luís Seoane, Isaac Díaz Pardo, etc. Cartel de Castelao
In the statute are recognised:
- Recognizing of Galician language as proper language of Galicia (and its co-official status with Spanish)
- Galician symbols: flag, shield, etc.
- Division and administrative organization of territory in provinces and rural parroquias
- Recognising of Galician communities around the world
- Its own patrimony and finances
- Some comptences as described with the Constitution and solidarity laws.
April 6 of 1981, this statute was signed by King Juan Carlos I de Spain, and by govern president Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, in the Spanish Royal Palace.
