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Slowly but inexorably, the old order seems to be giving way under Juan Carlos. Last week the 565-member Cortes (Parliament) embarked on the first genuine post-Franco reform by voting to lift a ban on political meetings. The government of aging (67) Premier Carlos Arias Navarro also acknowledged that...
The government's next reform will be a national yes/no referendum in October on proposals to create a bicameral legislature. The present rubber-stamp Cortes and National Council will be replaced in 1977 by a 300-member Lower House, elected by universal suffrage (long demanded by leftists). There will...
The Vitoria crisis was just the newest of many problems besetting Juan Carlos. The four Basque provinces in Spain's north are home to an enduring separatist movement. Similar regional discontent is brewing in Catalonia, where demonstrations last month paralyzed Barcelona on two successive Sundays and hastened the King...
The most important of Arias' proposed "limited modifications" in Spain's 18-year-old constitution was the creation of a second chamber of the Cortes, Spain's Parliament. This would be a popularly elected lower house that would have equal power with a largely appointed upper chamber...
Arias also promised some vaguely defined softening of a draconian anti-terrorism law passed last August, under which hundreds have been detained without trial. In addition, his speech included reference to reforming the tax system. Otherwise, the package contained few specifics and appeared to be concerned with upholding the old...