The ultimatum promoted by the PSC and En Comú Podem for Junts per Catalunya to return before midday on Wednesday to the consensus to try to shield linguistic immersion remained a dead letter. Negotiations are still open. The question of the Catalan language is essential for all these forces, also for ERC, everyone is aware that no one can be dispensed with and that is why the 24-hour period announced on Tuesday had no effect. Despite giving the impression that the talks had been deadlocked for days, Junts welcomed the Republicans' proposal to draft a new ad hoc law. At least to talk about it.
Thus, an opportunity has been opened for an agreement to be reached before the bell rings. JxCat is willing to go down this road. After weeks of discretion and no progress, now with the threat of the calendar -the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) set May 31 as the deadline to apply its ruling that orders 25% of classes to be taught in Spanish-, the The possibility of making a new law instead of modifying the current one on Language Policy opens the way, especially after a meeting on Tuesday night at the Palau de la Generalitat in which high-ranking figures from the Government were involved, such as Pere Aragonès and Jordi Puignero.
But nothing is closed. The two partners of the Catalan Executive negotiate in extremis and socialists and common hope to see the results.
Likewise, sources from the negotiations point out that the content of this new law could end up being quite similar to what was agreed between the PSC, Esquerra, JxCat and the commons on March 24. Junts distanced itself from that agreement to reform the Language Policy Law after eight hours.
Apart from the parliamentary flank, the Government is finalizing an emergency decree law to make it clear that percentages do not fit in the Catalan education system – a point that can be controversial when seeking the support of Catalan socialists – and that it be the Department of Education, with Minister Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray at the helm, who assumes responsibility.
The articles of this decree law specify that percentages, proportions or other numerical parameters are not allowed in the teaching and use of the two languages. In addition, the decree law would also incorporate that the linguistic projects be validated by Educació, with which the department would assume responsibility for the legality of the linguistic projects of each center, in such a way that the management teams of the schools would be protected before the courts. .
The decree would also include an additional provision that would grant said ministry the power to advise the centers on the preparation, approval and review of language projects.
All these points, according to Government sources, exceed the proposal for a decree law that JxCat had presented to the Executive of Pere Aragonès, since the initiative of the post-convergent "is limited" to betting on "administrative silence" so that he is the minister of Education who assumes the responsibility of the linguistic projects.
The third leg is judicial. To prove that the 25% ruling is not applied, the Generalitat filed an appeal with the TSJC on Tuesday. However, from the Government itself they admit that it may have little travel.
The three measures are complementary and would be launched in parallel.
Everything is part of ERC's attempt to tie Junts back to the consensus for the Catalan. Puigdemont's formation has said, like the CUP, at all times that the reform of the Language Policy Law would not serve to stop the application of the sentence. The path of the new law, on the other hand, has not displeased them. Be that as it may, this initiative has shaken the possibility, today, that ERC, PSC and common take the direct reform without JxCat.
The PSC believes that all this would have been a maneuver to prevent the crisis between the partners of the Government from worsening. The common people also see it that way, but the fact is that the two forces seem willing to wait if happiness is good.
We will have to see what the result is and the photo that remains at the end of this double track of promoting parliamentary law and decree law by the Government. ERC wants to approve both; now the option has been opened that Junts also endorse the parliamentary route. And it depends on how the new law turns out – if it goes ahead – the PSC and the commons will be careful not to modify the essence of what they had already agreed on in March.
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