Social rights in the Statutes of Autonomy

Abstract

One of the highlight innovations from the new Federals Constitutions (Estatutos de Autonomía) who emerged from reform process in 2006-2007, has been the incorporation of political rules in economic and social policy and the incorporation as well of declarations of human rights –most of them with a social and economic nature–, which the procedural protection is also provided. However, the Constitutional Court judgement of december 12 about the contested Estatuto of Valencia has stated that the federals declarations formulated as individual rights have no direct effect, because requires a law interposition (interpositio legislatoris). That raises a serious issue of the true “constitutional” and regulatory nature of news Estatutos.