Las reformas del Amejoramiento del Fuero de Navarra

Abstract

We analyse the peculiar procedure followed to reform the Improvement of the Charter, excluding parliamentary initiative and limiting the involvement of legislative, regional and national bodies, to ratify a text that was negotiated and agreed on by governments without any possibility of amendment. We examine the two partial reforms approved in 2001 and 2010, both focusing on the issue of the early dissolution of the Parliament of Navarra and on the investiture procedure to repair the failings caused by the original draft, as well as other frustrated reform initiatives. Finally, although the reform procedure is complex, we offer some suggestions for the future regarding unresolved issues such as the area of jurisdiction, the mechanisms of direct democracy, the language policy, the Improvement reform procedure itself, the effects of the transitional provision of the Constitution etc.