| Summary: | There is a short democratic legitimacy of the Spanish Constitution in Basque society, which can only partially be remedied by the majority support to the Statute of Autonomy of 1979, which was however directly rejected by some leading supporters of sovereignty. Moreover, there is an increasing questioning of the statutory framework by sovereignty sectors as the system developed over the following decades. This leads to the long, unresolved confrontation between those who advocate for the sovereignty of Basque citizens, who would be free to decide their political statute democratically, and those who deny that sovereignty, arguing that it can only be understood as that of the whole Spanish people, who are overwhelmingly opposed to any secessionist or even asymmetric solution. The electoral or sociological support to the two opposing blocks of Basque politics appears to not have undergone major changes over the last 30 years.
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