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Casado said that the PSOE of _“last decade did what that until then he had not tried to do even the nationalism of [Jordi] Pujol: a new statute for Catalonia”_. He then stated: _“Before Maragall and Zapatero, no one in Catalonia even advocated the modification of the Statute of 1980″_. It is FALSE: the reform debate was present in the Catalan political debate at least since 1983. We reviewed the newspaper archive to verify if anyone advocated the modification of the Statute of Catalonia - approved in 1979 - before the years in which Pasqual Maragall and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero coincided as president of the Generalitat (since 2003) and of the Government (2004). In 2006 there was the reform of the norm that is still in force. ![\\"Session](\\"\\") The “unique” financing of Catalonia and immigration mark the first control session to the Government of the political course 1983 Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) evaluates proposing a reform of the Statute As stated in this chronicle published by El País, the reform of The law was already a cause of debate, both within the parties themselves and in the Parliament. The leader of ERC at the time, Heribert Barrera, even announced that his parliamentary group in the Chamber would promote an initiative to promote the reform of the Statute, although he did not carry it out later. 1987 ![\\"calendar](\\"\\") School calendar in Catalonia: these are the dates for the 2024-2025 return La Vanguardia reported that Antoni Subirà, president of the parliamentary group of Convergència i Unió, did not rule out the reform of the text, although it did not see it necessary to advance self-government. 1995 Another example that we find in the newspaper archive is how the socialist Joaquim Nadal was talking about reforming the Statute and how Jordi Pujol and other politicians did it they criticized. 1999 Maragall was already part of the opposition to Pujol in the Parliament. That year celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Statute of 1979. The headlines of the time They highlighted that the anniversary coincided with a division of opinions regarding to the reform of the text. El País explained: “In recent weeks, all parties have referred to this autonomous text, either to pronounce on favor of its current wording (PP); to propose modifying it, as is the case of the PSC, IC-V and ERC, or to propose its rereading (CiU)”. The Vanguard headlined with Maragall's request for reform. In an interview with Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida, who held the position of Minister of Government in Catalonia, he was asked to analyze the situation of the parties against the Statute reform. Duran i Lleida answered: “I believe that in the debate on the 20 years of the Statute there was coherence in almost all the speeches that have been formulated in recent years. Ribó said what He always says, and I highlight this positively. Carod Rovira bet, as it comes betting ERC, for the reform of the Statute, and Convergència i Unió, both in the intervention of his spokesperson as in that of the president of the Generalitat, stressed what his thesis has been: not to reject the reform of the Statute, but bet on its rereading.” 2002 This year the debate was still on the table. It is the parliamentary group of Jordi Pujol, CiU, who threatens to ask for reform because of the »climate of "autonomous involution" that existed between the PP and PSOE. Also Carod Rovira (ERC) asked Pujol to take a first step to reform the Statute. Therefore, the references show that since practically the approval of the 1979 Statute, the conversation to reform it was present in the Catalan politics. We have asked the PP what Casado was referring to specifically. with this statement, but they have not yet responded to us. Sources: * Convergencia leaders consider that the reform of the Statute of Catalonia is inevitable (8/14/1983, El País) * Subirà does not rule out a reform of the Statute (9/2/1987, La Vanguardia) * Pujol remembers that Joaquim Nadal opposed reforming the Statute (10/29/1995, La Vanguardia) * Harsh criticism of Nadal for proposing the reform of the Catalan statute * The Parliament celebrates 20 years between requests for reform * Maragall surpasses Pujol and commemorates the anniversary of the Statute by asking for its reform (12/10/1999, La Vanguardia) * CiU will ask for the reform of the Statute if the Government does not make new transfers (10/2/2002, La Vanguardia) * Carod asks Pujol to take a first step to reform the Statute (10/2/2002) * Catalonia * Statute of Autonomy * Pablo Casado ### Have you seen/heard a phrase by Pablo Casado that sounded false or false to you? misleading? Write here and we will verify it Participate What did he say? Continue Where have you seen/heard it? 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Before Maragall and Zapatero no one in Catalonia even advocated the modification of the 1980 Statute