La capacidad regional para iniciar leyes nacionales en iberoamérica. Especial atención a los casos de México, España y Portugal

Abstract

For some time now, the traditional subjects of the legislative initiative (King, Parliament, members of Parliament and Government) have been joined by other new subjects that were never previously considered: the citizens themselves (popular legislative initiative), and the territories endowed with political autonomy that make up the State where the territorially composite condition of the State so permits. This paper deals with the latter possibility and its incidence in Latin American countries, and a first look at the Latin American constitutional panorama is enough to confirm that the attribution to territorial entities with political autonomy of legislative initiative before the central Parliament is more typical of regional composite models than of federal systems, where this power is less frequent because these entities are already really and effectively represented in the Upper House