Junts per Catalunya will send a proposal to President Pere Aragonès and his partners in the Government, Esquerra Republicana, so that the Catalan Executive approves a decree law or a decree – whichever figure is deemed appropriate – in order to try to preserve linguistic immersion in the face of the sentence of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) that stipulates that 25% of the classes are in Spanish, and before the order of the Catalan high court that gave 15 days to the Generalitat to apply the sentence. The deadline is May 31.
Meanwhile, ERC is waiting to know the details, but is critical of the future of the whole issue. In any case, the Republicans have once again appealed to those of Carles Puigdemont to rejoin the pact signed with the PSC and the commons at the end of March, which involved a reform of the Language Policy law, but they do not rule out any via.
With this decree law, the figure that JxCat considers most appropriate since it can only be appealed to the Constitutional Court and leaves the TSJC and the Supreme Court out of their judicial path, according to the party, an attempt would be made to shield the immersion and that the The approval of the linguistic projects that raise the educational centers rests with the Executive. In this way, teachers would be protected, as Junts has been asking for weeks. "It's not about disobeying [the TSJC], it's about applying the current legal framework," Josep Rius, spokesman for the formation, said at a press conference on Monday.
With this decree, the reform of the Language Policy Law would be left in a drawer, a tool that in JxCat's opinion does not protect immersion, according to Rius. "There is no independent legal study that says that the reform of the Language Policy Law will serve to protect immersion," said the party's vice president.
In addition, Rius stressed that Plataforma per la Llengua, USTEC or the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) have supported his refusal to reform. "It seems that there is more social consensus not to implement this reform," he said.
On Thursday of last week, Junts announced that it was withdrawing from the four-way agreement with ERC, PSC and the commons to modify the Language Policy Law, which intended to respond to the TSJC ruling, and since then the possibility that it will be approved has been considered. a decree.
Now the ball will go to the Govern's roof. Faced with Junts' refusal of the reform, both the Catalan and common socialists had urged the Republicans to maintain the reform and approve it without one of the partners of the Catalan Executive, a scenario that was not ruled out in ERC in the face of what was considered a partisan option.
Before sharing the proposal with the rest of the groups working on the reform of the Language Policy Law, Junts will send the project to its partners.
Esquerra, for his part, does not rule out absolutely anything, including the possibility of not waiting for next week's ordinary plenary session and that an extraordinary session be held in the next two or three days is a possibility. He continues trying to convince Junts to rejoin "the consensus" of March with the modification of the Language Policy Law.
To do this, the last proposal discussed between republican and common socialists identifies in this black on white reform that there should be no percentages in the educational model in "our country", as explained by Marta Vilalta, ERC spokesperson. A fact that was not contemplated neither in the proposal signed in March nor in the resulting text before the interlocutory of the TSJC so that 25% of classes are already applied in Spanish.
ERC will study Junts' proposal, but it is clear that "the higher the legislative rank, the better, and if it is a law processed by Parliament, better than any other alternative", as Vilalta underlined. All in all, the Republicans could even work on parallel paths: the approval of a decree law and the reform of the Language Policy law itself.
But the spokeswoman has also been deeply critical of JxCat. They attribute the fact that they dropped out of the pact, first, to "their internal discrepancies", and, second, to Junts' willingness to go, as she has pointed out, against ERC by system. "To understand each other between two formations, it is first important that they understand themselves", she has pointed out in relation to Junts. That is why she has launched an invitation so that in the congress that Puigdemont's will celebrate on June 4 and in July "the best possible thing will go for her." "The country cannot afford to continue to divide and go against its fellow travelers (...), against ERC and against the Government of which they are a part," she concluded.
For its part, the PSC is willing to give ERC room to convince Junts and even formulate an alternative proposal to the reform. The Socialists are willing to study it and would accept it as long as "it does not substantially change the agreement."
The socialist deputy secretary, Lluïsa Moret, has assured that "there is always room for agreement" because the country "justly needs a broad consensus in favor of linguistic coexistence". Although they do not rule out an extraordinary plenary session next week -as the commons request-, in Salvador Illa's party they refuse to set temporary limits. His will is to "exhaust all possibilities and all possible instruments" so that "consensus can be kept alive and come to fruition."
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