Today in 1983, 40 years ago: the Spanish Constitutional Court considers that the LOAPA (Organic Law for Harmonizing the Autonomous Process) is neither organic nor harmonizing, so it confers a lower rank than the statutes of autonomy, deletes seven articles and modifies as many. The sentence, issued at the request of the appeal filed by the Catalan and Basque governments, is a setback for the socialist government.

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