The Constitutional Court admits the appeal against the Extremaduran Law of Concord

The Plenary of the Constitutional Court has admitted for processing the appeal of unconstitutionality number 5463-2026, filed by the President of the Government against several provisions of Law 4/2025, of October 15, on Concord of Extremadura. The decision was adopted by order dated September 8, 2026, and is published in the Official State Gazette number 233, of September 21, 2026, with the official reference BOE-A-2026-19521.

The announcement appears in Section I, General Provisions, within the heading of appeals of unconstitutionality of the Constitutional Court, on page 124118 of the gazette. The order is signed by the Secretary of Justice of the Plenary of the Constitutional Court, Alfonso Pérez Camino.

The challenged provisions

The appeal is directed against a part of the articles of the regional regulation, as detailed in the order itself:

• Article 4, paragraph 2, only regarding the clause “avoiding confrontation between Spaniards.”
• Article 4, in its entirety.
• Articles 16 and 17.
• The transitional provision.
• The repealing provision.

Suspension of validity and application

The President of the Government invoked Article 161.2 of the Constitution, which results in the suspension of the validity and application of the challenged provisions with two different temporal scopes:

• From the date the appeal was filed, July 16, 2026, for the parties to the proceedings.
• From the publication of the corresponding edict in the Official State Gazette, for third parties.

The precedent of the bilateral commission

The admission comes after the Bilateral Cooperation Commission of the General State Administration-Autonomous Community of Extremadura agreed on November 28, 2025, to initiate negotiations to resolve the discrepancies expressed regarding the Extremaduran law. That agreement was published by Resolution of December 2, 2025, from the General Secretariat for Territorial Coordination (BOE-A-2026-822, BOE no. 12, of January 14, 2026, Sec. III, p. 6482) and affected articles 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 16, and 17, the transitional provision, and the repealing provision.

The agreement designated a working group to propose a solution to the commission and was communicated to the Constitutional Court for the purposes provided for in Article 33.2 of Organic Law 2/1979, of October 3, of the Constitutional Court. It was signed by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres Pérez, and the Councilor for the Presidency, Interior, and Social Dialogue, Abel Bautista Morán.

Other appeals in the same gazette

The same issue of the Official State Gazette contains the appeal of unconstitutionality number 5465-2026, regarding Law 1/2026, of April 15, which enables the Community of Madrid to exercise popular action in certain areas (BOE-A-2026-19522).

The admission for processing reopens the legal and political conflict over historical memory in Extremadura. Until the Constitutional Court rules, the suspension renders the challenged provisions of the Extremaduran concord law inapplicable, and the outcome will determine the actual scope for autonomous communities to legislate on this matter.

Source: Official State Gazette, no. 233, of September 21, 2026, Sec. I, page 124118 (official reference: BOE-A-2026-19521).