The process delineated in the constitution meant also the creation of a de facto unequal federal system, very much in line with normal asymmetries in multicultural, multilingual, multinational federacies. Some communities (Catalonia, Basque Country, and Galicia, usually called “historic”, and Andalusia) got more powers and faster than other regions which followed a slow path.5 This difference has been partly overcome over the years thanks to the slow but continuous transfer of power to the new regional governments. Currently, there are still significant differences among the two groups of communities, one of them at the symbolic level being that the presidents of the government of the “historic” regions can dismiss the regional parliaments and call for new elections at their own will. As a result, four autonomous communities have different electoral cycles than the others