It is so interesting to learn about these European countries.
I didn't know that Spain has only been a "democracy" since 1975 after Franco died. That is only 47 years. There are lots of people alive today who lived under Franco.
Franco came out on top in the Spanish civil war. He led the nationalist, conservative, monarchist side. The other side was a leftist coalition. During his time he used forced labor, concentration camps and executions to kill 50-100,000 people. In the end, he was responsible for the deaths of up to 200,000 French people when the war dead are included.
Spain is one country but it's decentralized. It has 17 autonomous communities based on region, nationality or being a historical community. There are two autonomous cities.
According to the Spanish constitution, the communities have limited self government. They have their own legislative assembly, council and council President and justice system. They manage their finances.
There have been movements to gain independence, or to be their own equal separate country within Spain, by a couple of nationality communities, particularly Catalonia. They have voted to be independent but have been refused and their parliament dissolved by the prime minister at one time. Some of the parliament have been jailed.
Spain is also divided into provinces and members of the congress and senate are elected there. The prime minister is the leader of the majority party that was elected.
They are a constitutional monarchy government just like Britain. The monarchy had been dissolved but was restored during the time of Franco.
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October 02, 2022 at 06:47PM
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