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PP, Cs and Vox accuse the PSC of underestimating Spanish for supporting the new law on languages

2022-05-25T12:42:31.782Z


The processing of the Catalan standard passes its first phase in the face of criticism from entities such as Platform for the Language


The leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa (c), listens to the intervention of the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, during the plenary session this Wednesday. David Zorrakino (Europa Press)

The minimum pact between ERC, Junts, PSC and En Comú Podem to approve a law on the linguistic regime in Catalan schools, which avoids referring to the percentages established by the courts, has survived its first procedure in Parliament this Wednesday.

Its approval will be done by way of urgency and in the first session of the PP debate, Citizens and Vox have charged directly against the Partit dels Socialistes (PSC) for considering that it underestimates the Castilian.

On the other side of the ideological spectrum, the CUP has declared the Catalan school model dead, since they consider that the approved text - which establishes Catalan as the vehicular language and Spanish as "curricular" - is a kind of Trojan horse to end linguistic immersion.

This position is shared by Platform for the Language,

The most criticized in the hemicycle have been the socialists.

Carlos Carrizosa, leader of Ciudadanos, has described the proposed law as "outrageous" to the Castilian and has made the PSC ugly because they are "the necessary cooperators of nationalism."

"It is not a consensus for the language, it is an imposition on the Catalans," Carrizosa warned.

The proposal signed by the groups does not address the TSJC's dialogue on the quota of a minimum of 25% of teaching hours in Spanish, but leaves the decision on these percentages in the hands of the centers, according to their sociolinguistic situation.

The text insists that Catalan is the vehicular language used "normally" but clarifies that Spanish must also have a role in school.

“The teaching and curricular use of Catalan and Spanish must be guaranteed”,

Alejandro Fernández, from the PP, has warned the Socialists that "joining the separatist cunning to avoid complying with the law" opens a path of "no return".

For Vox it is a "trap law" and that "Spanish is not included as a vehicular language, despite what the TSJC orders."

The positioning of the three rights makes it possible to foresee that the law will very possibly be appealed and a new judicial front will be opened on the use of the language in the school.

The plenary session has also included the control session with the Government and President Pere Aragonès.

In it, Ciudadanos took the opportunity to directly ask the Minister of Education, Josep Gonzàlez Cambray, if he intends to fulfill the sentence or not before next Tuesday, the deadline set by the Court for the forced execution of his mandate.

The head of Education has not given the deputy Lorena Roldán the binary answer (“Yes or no”) that she wanted, but has insisted that a decree law is being worked on, parallel to the law, and an instruction to the directors of the centers for the design of language plans.

The counselor has revealed that, once these projects are approved, their compliance will be ensured annually, for example, with skills tests where oral proficiency in each of the official languages ​​will be measured.

That decree law will be approved after Friday but the big question is what will happen on Tuesday.

In an interview with Onda Cero, the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, has insisted that the sentence must be fulfilled and that the agreed text, he has defended, facilitates its application.

The Government and the Socialists share the same analysis: the nerve of the TSJC's decision was a response to the pending task of legislating on the proportion and teaching of Spanish in education.

When the legal package was approved, this lack disappeared and the mechanism was created, with legal protection, so that each educational center responds “à la carte” to its linguistic needs.

Therefore, they hope that the Court will consider executed or, at least on track, its verdict.

The TSJC will have to verify if its mandate is fulfilled or explain that it accepts the formula approved by the Executive and Parliament as good.

If, despite these checks, you still do not see your sentence executed, for example, you can request it again, warning, for example, of the payment of fines typical of a contentious-administrative process.

Not only the three rights are against the agreement.

The CUP has also criticized it.

The anti-capitalist Dolors Sabater has been in charge of justifying the rejection of its formation, pointing out that the new law complies with the judicial mandate of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC).

"The legal framework is adapted to the 25% sentence, that is, the sentence becomes law," he denounced.

“It is a fateful historic day in Parliament.

The ones who are legislating are the magistrates”, she added.

The CUP has attacked the four formations that signed the bill (which account for more than 80% of the seats in the Chamber and go beyond the logic of pro-independence blocs), accusing them of agreeing "in secret" not only in the parliamentary process but also ignoring to the educational community and the entities that work for the defense of the language.


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