La renuncia del socialismo a la reforma agraria en el sur de Europa: aproximación al caso andaluz

During the transition to democracy, the main Andalusian political parties decided to incorporate in the Statute of Autonomy the obligation of the Autonomous Community to promete an agrarian reform. That agrarian reform should allow, among others advances, the correction of the asymmetric agrarian structure and the full employment in the countryside. The statutory mandete obligated to the Spanish Socialist Labour Party – PSOE, winner of the first regional elections of 1982, to submitt to the Andalusian Parliament a law project of agrarian reform. It would be approved in the chamber in 1984 only with the votes of the promoting party. The first and last Andalusian Agrarian Reform Law contemplated both the support for the productive improvement of farms that required it and the expropriation and/or purchase of land for distribution among agriculture labours. However, the execution of the reform would soon pivot towards the firs measure, making the second testimonial, especially since 1991, what evidenced the Andalusian socialism`s renunciation of the agrarian reform as a transformation instrument for the rural areas.