Within the framework of the negotiations for the investiture and for the constitution of the Congress table, in which the parties of strictly Catalan obedience, but also Basque and Galician, will have a key role, the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, who speaks Galician, has proposed carrying out a reform of the regulations of the Lower House so that it can speak in the co-official languages of the State such as Catalan, Basque and Galician.
In an interview on TVE 1, the acting second vice president of the Government has launched this proposal, which a little over a year ago was already rejected by the PSOE together with PP, Cs and Vox, as a commitment by Sumar to "advance towards a country that is plural" and "diverse" and has defended that the measure "improves the regulations of the Chamber" and "has a constitutional fit". "Why aren't we going to be able to express ourselves in Galician, Catalan or Basque", the also acting Minister of Labor asked rhetorically, after pointing out that "diversity is our greatest wealth".
Díaz has indicated that since its formation they would like to promote this reform "taking into account that Spain is a diverse country, that it is plural, that it is a country of countries". In this sense, the vice president has framed this reform in the "necessary improvement and modernization of institutions".
The current regulations of Congress do not contain any provision that specifically refers to the use of co-official languages, but the truth is that it is not allowed even in oral interventions, which has given rise to several incidents in various legislatures, nor in documents and writings.
Until now, the PSOE has been ruling out the use of the co-official languages in Congress, alleging that Spanish is the only language recognized throughout the State and the common language of all Spaniards. Since the time of the socialist Manuel Marín, what is allowed in plenary is to pronounce quotes or phrases in co-official languages, facilitating the corresponding translation to the shorthand services.
In another order of things, Díaz has admitted that Sumar is negotiating with the Catalan groups and with other groups "to facilitate the investiture" of Pedro Sánchez, but beyond pointing out that Nacho Álvarez, Secretary of State for Social Rights and economic spokesman for Sumar, coordinates the conversations with the PSOE and that the former deputy of the commons Jaume Asens does it with Junts, ERC and other parties, has prescribed "discretion" over all contacts as a "guarantee that things go well".
At this point, the leader of Sumar has wanted to stop to respond to her colleague in the Council of Ministers María Jesús Montero, who yesterday warned that it is the socialists who have "the responsibility" to contact the different groups, including Junts, to gather support for the investiture and not Add. "People are important and here Mr. Asens is, and the PSOE knows it as all of Spain knows it," Díaz concluded, alluding to the closeness of the former Catalan deputy with the environment of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont.
Asked to retain the Ministry of Equality to Add that Irene Montero holds in office, Yolanda Díaz has prioritized seeing "what we are going to do and then enter the who." "Now we are not choosing ministries but rather the government agreement that we want", the vice president clarified, who at all times has raised the need to be in the executive to make "a better country, with more rights and more public policies".
Regarding the criticism he has received from Podemos, Díaz has said he respects them but does not share them and has limited himself to recalling that more than 15 organizations signed the electoral agreement with Sumar, a movement in which he will work for its development. And he has issued a warning in case anyone is tempted to block the investiture: "No one is interested in having an electoral repetition and the formation that allows it will be rejected at the polls."
