The Vox deputies left the plenary session of Congress this morning, minutes after the PSOE spokesperson who defended the reform of the Regulation to allow the use of languages, spoke in Galician during the debate.
Vox spokesperson Josefa Millán requested the floor after the socialist deputy spoke in Galician, but the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, did not give it to her, and asked her to allow the speaker to continue taking his turn.
Faced with this decision, all the Vox deputies left the chamber in single file, but not before passing by the seat of the acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who is in the United Nations, to abandon there the headphones that had been given to them. enter the session, to be able to follow the plenary session.
The Vox spokesperson stressed that allowing the use of languages in Congress is "an exaltation of division" and criticized that Congress "has passed the Regulations by the lining... of its jacket," she said. For his part, Santiago Abascal, in a tweet, stressed that "they have chosen us to represent the Spaniards. I believe that millions of them wanted us to throw their artifact of hatred and division at Sánchez today. They pervert our languages by using them against understanding." ", against coexistence, against the law", and concluded: "Let us take note of these preparatory steps for the new coup, which they will try to take from Moncloa."
The Vox deputies returned to the chamber to listen to the PP's intervention, but when the popular deputy Borja Semper used Basque in his speech, which he interspersed with Spanish, they were absent again, this time at the top of the chamber. The PP spokesperson recalled that for many years, in Euskadi, ETA has murdered for thinking differently, and that is why he invites everyone to stay in the chamber and defend their ideas.
The march, once again, of the Vox deputies, provoked applause from some deputies on the left, especially Sumar, while their leader, Yolanda Díaz, applauded and laughed loudly at the situation that the Popular Group spokesperson had to live through.
Before the socialist spokesperson, Ramón Besteiro, took the floor, the PP spokesperson Cuca Gamarra, asked for a point of order, requesting that the regulations be complied with, and although she did not cite why her claim was that people could not speak in a language other than Spanish, given that the Regulations had not yet been modified.
Gamarra stressed that if the debate aims to modify the regulation so that the different co-official languages can be used in the autonomous communities, it would not be in accordance with the regulation to do so before it is approved.
The request was also rejected by Francina Armengol, who stressed that next week the table will decide on the reconsideration document presented by the PP to reverse the decision to already apply the use of languages to this debate, without the law is approved. A decision that, even if it were reconsidered, could not be applied, because the debate would have already taken place.
In the turn against the bill, the Popular Group deputy Borja Semper intervened, who began in Spanish, but occasionally inserted Basque on several occasions, which did not prevent him from considering "what they are going to do to be an error." commit" and defended that "no European nation has done a level of protection for its co-official languages" as in Spain.
He also considers that "no European nation" has done more "for the recovery and development of its languages", and asked "What is happening to Spain?" For the PP deputy, as important as defending Spain's linguistic diversity is having "great luck in sharing a common language." And "it is not a problem of diversity" but of respecting all languages "without falling into confrontation" and he warned that "we are not going to accept lessons from anyone."
Semper made an allusion to the PSOE reminding him, despite his intervention this morning, that the socialists "up until now voted the same as us" that is to say no, and the change has occurred not because of the conviction that it is better that they be asked to use all languages in Congress, but because of their need to have support for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
The UPN deputy, Alberto Catalán, who accused the independentists of "understanding the language not to promote understanding, but rather "they come to divide and demand national construction"
