The ERC candidate for mayor of Barcelona, Ernest Maragall, has alerted this Monday of the decrease in the social use of Catalan in Barcelona and promised to execute a plan, based on the capillarity that all municipal civic and cultural facilities suppose, to reverse the situation. “It is not only necessary to give classes, but to create attractive, playful activities”, emphasized the republican
Maragall, who has been accompanied by the former president of Parliament Carme Forcadell, has asserted that “the bfree money from Trias with the market and with tourism” aggravated, during the post-convergent mandate, a situation that was already beginning to occur throughout Catalonia.
“But what has come after, the government of Ada Colau and Jaume Collboni, has been worse, because what they have transpired is indifference to relegation of the social use of one’s own language. And resignation… They are not interested in the subject, “he said. And already focused on what he was, until 10 years ago his party, he said he felt” ashamed “before a linguistic attitude that he described as “branch agent”, something that “must end,” he said.
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Regarding the measures that the Republicans foresee in case of victory, he highlights, in addition to the capillarity plan with the municipal facilitiesthe creation of a commissioner, as responsible for ensuring the use of Catalan within the municipal administration and in the institution’s relations with the public, for compliance with the Regulations for the use of the Catalan language of the Barcelona City Council
Likewise, Maragall, also with the ‘Councillor for Culture, Natalia Garriga next door, he highlighted that 68 actions to promote Catalan in the city can be launched, which will be expanded with new measures aimed at specific neighbourhoods, with special attention to the most vulnerable as a guarantee of equity, and to specific groups, such as youth and vulnerable groups.