La crisis de la democracia parlamentaria. El caso de la COVID-19
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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ISSN: 0034-7639
Year of publication: 2021
Issue: 216
Pages: 101-139
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de administración pública
Abstract
It is the responsibility of parliament under constitutional principles to enact an act providing the powers - ordinary and extraordinary - to be given to the executive in the fight against contagious diseases. Extraordinary emergency powers - exercised through regulations according to such act - can affect fundamental rights, sources of the law and allocation of competences in a multilevel system. Hence the need, firstly, for such an act to meet special requirements and, secondly, for an intense parliamentary scrutiny. If parliament fails in this twofold mission, first and foremost in the comprehensive regulation of those powers with due safeguards, it creates other serious consequential constitutional concerns and a severe democratic deficit.
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