Madrid (Spain)
They are all Spanish, they all speak perfect Castilian, but they will now use headsets and interpreters to understand each other. The 350 elected members of the Congress of Deputies voted on Thursday to reform the Chamber's rules of procedure to allow the use in the Hemicycle of the three regional languages recognised as co-official in their regions of establishment: Catalan, Basque and Galician. The measure is presented on the left as a recognition of the country's linguistic and cultural wealth.
It already exists, partially and, since 2011, in the Senate, defined by the Constitution as the Chamber of territorial representation. But the fact is that it would never have happened in Congress without the inflexible demand of the two Catalan pro-independence parties, Junts (centre-right) and ERC (centre-left). Because the President of the Government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez (PSOE), needs the votes of the deputies of these two parties to hope to obtain...
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