The rebellion of local peoples against centralist power is everywhere.
Despite the objections of CONAKAT and others, the constitution was largely centralist, concentrating power in the central government in Léopoldville, and did not devolve significant powers to provincial level.
Labour even promised to return control of the (centralised) business rate to councils in its 1997 manifesto - only to be sucked into Whitehall's centralist ways on gaining power.
The driving factors behind this include the commitment to free market ideology, England's highly centralist constitution, and the symbolic power of the elite independent school sector.
The new governor saw clearly the ambiguities and dangers of such widespread support, and, although he was identified as a federalist, he ruled as a centralist, with Buenos Aires his main power base.
Labour missed a golden opportunity during the last parliament to deliver on its core values through a devolution of power after its "centralist instincts" returned, the former frontbencher Tristram Hunt will claim.
On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, they are closet centralists, jealous of their own powers and haunted still by the shades of the "loony left" Labour-controlled local councils of the 1980s.Appropriately it was on a Wednesday, July 16th, that the strongest symbol of Labour's localist tendencies was unveiled.
Drawn up in the late 1970s in reaction against 40 years of centralist dictatorship, it already devolves wide powers to the country's 17 regions.
It is quite a change from what Abbott advocated in his book Battlelines, penned after the Coalition's 2007 election loss, where he proposed a radical centralist agenda, giving the commonwealth total power over things that have traditionally been state responsibilities.
By a fierce centralist onslaught by the King and a small group of brutal, greedy, self-serving henchmen out for loot.
