In the framework of the negotiations for the investiture and for the constitution of the Congress Bureau, in which the parties of strict Catalan obedience, but also Basque and Galician, will play a key role, the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, yesterday proposed a reform of the rules of the Lower House so that it can intervene in the co-official languages of the State, such as Catalan, Basque or Galician. A proposal that a little over a year ago was brought to Congress by the Catalan and Basque nationalists, endorsed by Unides Podem, and that was rejected in the full House by the PSOE along with PP, Cs and Vox.
In an interview with TVE's La 1, the acting second vice-president of the Government launched the proposal as a commitment by Sumar to "move towards a country that is plural" and defended that the measure "improves the rules of the Chamber" and "is constitutional". "Why can't we express ourselves in Galician, Catalan or Basque?" asked the also acting Minister of Labor, after pointing out that "diversity is our greatest wealth".
The current regulations of the Lower House do not contain any precept on the use of co-official languages, but the truth is that their use is not allowed even in oral interventions, except for very specific moments or in very specific speeches briefs – which has given rise to several incidents in several legislatures – nor to documents and writings.
