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News, October, 2006Catalan Election campaign16th October. The new Catalan Estatut is taking effect. The first election campaign under the revised law was launched officially at midnight (voting on 1st November) and negotiations are under way to put the financial implications into effect in the 2007 budget, now in the national Cortes. The Catalan Estatut, the region's local 'constitution' took effect on 9th August after a year of hard negotiations and political haggling at regional and national level, including a number of recourses to the Constitutional Court due to apparent conflicts with the Spanish Constitution, notably about what constitutes a 'Nation'. The process is now complete, but in its wake a number of other regions, such as Andalusia and the island archipelagos, have also begun the process of renegotiating their Statutes. The November 1st elections will see which party has made most political capital out of the last year's negotiations. More about the aproval process of the new Estatut Sources: El Mundo, El País, TVE |