"This Government works for harmony and coexistence, and will never use languages as an element of political confrontation as you do," Pedro Sánchez warned Santiago Abascal, when the leader of Vox urged the President of the Government to intervene forcefully before the approval today by the Parliament of the law on the use and learning of official languages in non-university education, after the agreement reached between ERC, Junts, the PSC and En Comú Podem. The message from the Chief Executive to the extreme right has also been extended to the Popular Party and Ciudadanos, formations that denounce the agreement between the main political forces of the Parliament to safeguard Catalan in schools after the ruling on 25% of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC).
"How long will you allow the institutional contempt of court rulings in Catalonia, which occurs in order to persecute the Spanish language in the classroom?" Abascal asked Sánchez, this Wednesday during the control session with the Government. in Congress. “This is a democracy and there is separation of powers. In this country, judicial sentences are carried out, but in this case it has to be the TSJC who decides whether or not their sentences are being carried out”, Sánchez argued.
The head of the Executive, in any case, has attributed Abascal's question to the immediate electoral interests of Vox. “You care very little about compliance with the sentence. Today he brings this question because he is campaigning in Andalusia, and exacerbating territorial grievances is what seems to be good for them in Andalusia”, warned Sánchez. And he has criticized the leader of the extreme right that his objective is "to end the self-government of Catalonia." For this reason, the President of the Government has portrayed Vox as "a centralist right, which does not recognize territorial diversity or perceive it as an asset and wealth." “It is true that Spanish is the language that unites all fellow citizens, but Basque, Galician and Catalan are also recognized in our Constitution”, he defended. Sánchez has thus equated Vox with Francoism and has denied that it is a constitutionalist party. “You do not believe in democracy”, he has settled.
