The Parliament with the votes of PSC, ERC, Junts and comuns the law that raffles 25% of Castilian in Catalonia

BARCELONA, 8 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Parliament has approved the bill on the use and learning of official languages ​​in non-university education with the support of PSC-Units, ERC, Junts and comuns and the rejection of Vox, Cs, PP -- who had presented amendments to the totality-- and CUP, after the Consell de Garanties Estatutàries (CGE) endorsed that it does not violate the Constitution or the Statute.

The bill, which was debated this Wednesday at the beginning of the plenary session, states that Catalan is the language normally used as a vehicular language, and establishes Spanish as the curricular language that will be used in the terms established in the linguistic projects of the centers, without fixing percentages.

The initiative reaches the plenary session after the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), at the beginning of May, ordered the Ministry of Education to execute, in a maximum of 15 days, the sentence that requires at least one 25% of teaching hours in Spanish.

The parliamentary groups of PSC-Units, ERC, Junts and comuns spent weeks negotiating with the intention of approving a law before the end of the TSJC deadline to execute the sentence, an agreement that they finally reached at the last moment.

However, the term ended on May 31 without the law being approved, since Vox, Cs and PP took it to the CGE -the Government did approve a decree in parallel that rules out percentages-, after socialists, republicans , Junts y comuns will reach this agreement the week before.

The four groups behind the proposal agreed to it after reopening negotiations after Junts dropped an initial agreement in March to modify the Language Policy Law, which Laura Borràs's group ruled out hours after the announcement, considering that it had generated rejection in the community educational and entities.

The leader of Cs in Parliament, Carlos Carrizosa, has considered that the bill is "the latest deception in a chronicle of deceit and disloyalty woven by nationalism in cooperation with socialism and the left that represents Podemos", and in addition to ensuring that its content intends to exclude Spanish from the classroom and circumvent court orders, explained that they have presented an alternative initiative to reverse this situation.

From Vox, the deputy Joan Garriga has reiterated that they will take the bill to the Constitutional Court (TC) for not recognizing Spanish as a vehicular language and that they will file a complaint for alleged disobedience for "non-compliance" with the ruling of the TSJC, and has accused the Govern from using immersion as a political objective.

"Immersion, as applied in Catalonia, is illegal throughout the democratic world in which two or more official languages ​​converge," lamented the leader of the Catalan PP, Alejandro Fernández, after assuring that they want to treat Spanish as foreign language, and has reproached that socialists and comuns support the bill.

From the CUP, Carles Riera has asked to withdraw the law because he believes that it represents a first step to introduce bilingualism in Catalan schools, and has asked the President of the Government, Pere Aragonès, and the Minister of Education, Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray, if They will instruct the centers that are already applying 25% to stop doing so once the law is approved.

Esther Niubó (PSC-Units) has defended that the law "in no case violates the regulations, challenges the courts or seeks confrontation", but instead recognizes for the first time the curricular use of Spanish, for which she has lamented the role of Vox, Cs and PP, especially the popular ones and their leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who assured that in Catalonia there is a linguistic 'apartheid'.

From the comuns, the deputy Jéssica González has criticized that "the perverse speeches that say that today, what is done, is to introduce Spanish in the classrooms to the detriment of Catalan, are harmful", she has defended the political consensus that they have managed to build and He has called for teachers to be allowed to work.

The Republican Mònica Palacín has accused Vox, Cs and PP of having carried out a filibustering exercise -in her words- by taking the law to the CGE, and has highlighted that 80% of the deputies will support it after having regained consensus, to which he has invited the CUP to join through the decree of the Government that rejects percentages: "We distance the school from the imposition of 25%".

The deputy of Junts Francesc Ten has explained his abstention in the vote in support of the activist Salvador Ribot, whom he has asked to abandon the hunger strike he is carrying out in defense of Catalan in schools, and has also defended the importance of the The Government also promoted a decree law "without the percentages imposed by the politicized justice of the Spanish State."

The President of the Parliament, Laura Borràs, has also highlighted the name of Salvador Ribot for the 13 days of hunger strike that he has been on in defense of Catalan, and has wanted to thank all the levels of the educational system as well as all the entities and people who work "to guarantee that the right to learning in our language is a reality every day".

Following the approval of the new law, CUP deputies have risen to display placards with the message 'Defensem la llengua', while those in the promoter groups have celebrated the approval with a long standing ovation, and Aragonès has hand with Salvador Illa (PSC), Josep Maria Jové (ERC), Albert Batet (Junts) and Jéssica Albiach (commons).

Representatives of the law enforcement groups and entities have then taken a joint photograph, in which they have posed Aragonès; the Vice President of the Generalitat and Minister, Jordi Puigneró, and the Councilors of Universities, Gemma Geis; Education, Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray, and Culture, Natàlia Garriga, among others.