Las bases jurídico-constitucionales del proceso de descentralización en Francia

Every decentralization process requires for the territorial governments to be designed by the means of a democratic electoral system and for the territorial coUectivities to dispose of a self-govemment including autonomous legislative powers. In order to achieve this objective France has enacted a series of political and legeil measures, but the result isn't strictly what is recognized as the logic of an authentic decentralization; moreover, it would be more appropriate to register the achievement of a certain degree of semi-decentralization or preferably of an imperfect or relative decentralization. What said is owed to the French constitutional reformation, it, leaving a programmatic and idealistic print, by converting the organic legislator into the main institutional character, the only who can enrich the decentralization process with «legislative realism». Differently the constitutional absorbing of a series of «new principais» helps rendering the French decentralization an element that constitutes its political identity and not a simple administrative detachment of the state