Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo

Sommario

1. Introduzione. Le finalità della nuova legge organica sui partiti politici. – 2. I principi costituzionali e la disciplina dei partiti nella vecchia legge del 1978. – 3. La Ley Orgánica 6/2002 de 27 de Junio: analisi e problemi. – 4. Problemi successivi all’entrata in vigore della legge. – 5. Batasuna, il partito fuorilegge.

AbstractOn June 27th, 2002 the Spanish Parliament approved the new Law on Political Parties (L. 6/2002), which has two main objectives: to update and complete the previous legislation (L. 54/1978) and to provide a new instrument against terrorism. This law will allow, by means of a new proceeding to be held before the Sala Especial del Tribunal Supremo, the judicial dissolution or suspension of a political party for lack of inner democracy, commission of a crime or serious and continued attempts to violate freedom of rights or democratic principles by means of one of the actions listed in section 10 of L. 6/2002. Doubts have arisen among constitutional law scholars concerning the competence handed to the Tribunal Supremo rather than to the Tribunal Constitucional, which is the guardian of the Constitution, and among politicians and scholars concerning the immediate enforcement of the law in order to dissolve the Batasuna Party (often charged with supporting ETA terrorism), because this step would cause a retroactive effect of the law which as such is forbidden by the Constitution.