The PSC accuses the Government of "breaking the spirit" of the National Language Pact

The parliamentary group of the PSC-Units has accused the Government this Friday of "breaking the spirit of the National Pact for the Language" by having "unilaterally" approved measures to promote Catalan, for which it will open "a period of reflection and reconsideration" on this agreement.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
23 December 2022 Friday 05:32
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The PSC accuses the Government of "breaking the spirit" of the National Language Pact

The parliamentary group of the PSC-Units has accused the Government this Friday of "breaking the spirit of the National Pact for the Language" by having "unilaterally" approved measures to promote Catalan, for which it will open "a period of reflection and reconsideration" on this agreement.

In a letter addressed to the Minister of Culture, Natàlia Garriga, PSC deputy in the Parliament Sílvia Romero has warned the Government that the socialists will not participate or favor "the partisan game or the use of the language with political ends".

Specifically, the PSC considers that the 100 measures to promote Catalan approved by the Government on November 29 should have been raised within the framework of the National Pact for the Language, which, they recall, is based "on trust, participation and the will to reach agreements".

For this reason, in the letter, Romero assures that, in the face of this "unilateral action by the Government", the group of the Socialist is "disgusted and surprised in equal parts", and considers the measures approved by the Catalan executive "counterproductive".

On November 29, the Government held a meeting of the extraordinary Executive Council in which it approved 100 measures to promote Catalan, ranging from a plan to increase its use in driving schools to another to increase its "awareness, knowledge and use in the healthcare system."

"After three weeks have passed since the extraordinary Government Council and not having received any new call for the National Pact for the Language, we open a period of reflection and reconsideration regarding the spirit of this pact," Romero warns in the letter.

The socialist deputy also adds in the letter that, within the framework of the National Pact for Language, the PSC has always advocated "working for the depoliticization and 'de-conflict' of the language", and that is why it considers it "counterproductive". that the Government justify the measures by declaring "that the language is in a critical situation".