The Executiu spokeswoman assures that the agreement between the PSC, ERC, Junts and ‘comuns’ to modify the language policy law is “a good starting point” and opens to “expand the consensus”
The pact that reissued the Government Come in Esquerra and Together included the regular call for days of coexistence to avoid being trapped in the discrepancies that marked the Executive of Quim Torra. The first appointment was in the Vall d’En Bas, on September 4, and was marred by the differences over the extension of the Barcelona-El Prat Airport and, this Saturday, the second, in the Palau de Pedralbes, due to the unchecking de Junts of the linguistic pact.
This second ‘coexistence’ of the Government was thought to analyze the ravages of the war in ukraine and the Catalan response to the socioeconomic and humanitarian crisis with the visions of four experts who starred in a round table moderated by the spokesperson for the Executiu, Patricia Plaja. But the meeting between ‘ministers’ and general secretaries was marked by the tensions generated in Palau by Junts withdrawing from the pact to retouch the language policy law eight hours after signing it and registering it in Parliament together with the PSC, ERC and ‘comuns ‘. The regulatory retouch -which establishes Catalan as the vehicular language and Spanish as the teaching language- aims to respond to the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) that establishes 25% of classes in Spanish without marking percentages and as a shield for a later decree of the Department of Education.The Aragonès-Puigneró pact
The president’ Pere Aragonesthe ‘vice president’ Jordi Puignero and the leader of Junts, jordi sanchez, have been chaining face-to-face meetings and telephone conversations since Friday to iron out rough edges, according to sources familiar with these meetings. The Government spokeswoman explained at a press conference that Aragonès and Puigneró, at the beginning of today’s session, reached four shared points on “the legalization of Catalan and legislative changes.”
The first, that the Executiu “is absolutely committed”, in all its spheres, “to the use and learning of Catalan”, and that “Catalan is and will continue to be the vehicular language of the school“, so the Executiu will look for ways “to separate the courts from linguistic decisions”. Thus, the Government “values the great political consensus in defense of Catalan” and ratifies that “the agreement of the Parliament It is a good starting point”. “We must continue to do everything possible and in all areas to protect Catalan in a coordinated way and all together,” Plaja stressed.
The spokeswoman defended that this is the message of the entire Government, which is open to adding more support to this “consensus” and that this does not alter the parliamentary procedurewhich continues its course for a reform by single reading and of extraordinary urgency, so that on Tuesday it will be set on the agenda of the plenary session on April 5, 6 and 7.
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