La «sustancialidad» del procedimiento para la reforma constitucional

Abstract

The constitutional amendment of article 135 of the Spanish Constitution has shown that the current parliamentary procedure for constitutional reform is totally inadequate. A constitutional reform of the importance of the one approved of the article 135 of the Spanish Constitution should not have been passed with such a significant reduction of procedural deadlines, and with just a single reading in the full Chamber. Such an important constitutional reform requires a scrupulous respect of the principles that surround parliamentary procedure: right of amendment, negotiation, terms of debate and maximum publicity. The current regulatory provisions do not fully guarantee these principles. Therefore, this essay proposes a change of the relevant regulations in order to ensure parliamentary procedures more adequate in terms of fulfilling the important purposes of constitutional reform.