“We are in a State of Law and the sentences are carried out & rdquor ;, assured this Monday in Barcelona the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, on the ruling that requires teaching 25% of classes in Spanish in Catalan schools. However, he avoided commenting on the position that the State Attorney’s Office, which depends on the ministry, will adopt and whether or not it will request the court to execute the sentence. The State Attorney is the only party that has appeared in the process and can demand that the resolution be complied with. Last Friday, the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) gave the Generalitat two months to do so,
“I cannot venture any scenario for an issue that we do not know what is going to happen, nor has the Generalitat presented allegations or not”, he specified, later adding that the Spanish Government is “committed to the official languages” and that the language “cannot be understood as an instrument to confront, but rather as an instrument of the country’s culture.” His Justice counterpart, Lourdes Ciuró, with whom LLop met this morning, I replied that the model of linguistic immersion in Catalonia is “successful” and not of “percentages & rdquor ;, at the same time that he categorically rejected the judicialization of this matter. Despite the insistence of the journalists, the minister has not wanted to clarify what will happen in the future with the judicial process and even stated that it is a decision that the State Attorney.
Bet on dialogue and sedition
The minister recalled that the government of Pedro Sanchez commitment to “dialogue & rdquor; and that Catalonia “is a fundamental agent” in it, remembering that some matters must be channeled through politics. The ‘consellera’ reminded him that the reform of the Criminal Code on the crimes of rebellion and sedition is necessary so that the conflict in Catalonia is “dejudicialized”. Llop specified that the ministry is working internally.
The minister and the minister’ have met in Barcelona to unravel some of the pending issues, such as the return to Catalonia of the court fees that is charged and that is not reversed, as well as the gap between the investment made in the Catalan courts of 1.2 million) (there is a difference and the money that the Spanish Executive remits for these items and the pending transfer of powers, such as that of judicial personnel Llop and Ciurò stressed that it has been a first contact and that they will continue talking to try to reach agreements.