Cs redoubles its triple offensive against linguistic immersion

Catalonia, Spain Y Europe. The triple offense of Cs against language immersion it is redoubled and already goes through criminal proceedings. The oranges will present a letter to the prosecution of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) in which they accuse the Catalan administration of ignoring the ruling that establishes 25% of teaching hours in Spanish in classrooms and of offering legal protection to teachers who receive “attacks” for the use of Catalan, something that, In his opinion, it requires the intervention of the public prosecutor to investigate whether there are signs of crime. In parallel, they will go to the Court of Accounts to study whether the Generalitat has been able to commit any irregularity with the launch of an advertising campaign in defense of linguistic immersion.

Cs thus intends to be contemplated criminal actions by the agreement of the Executive Council last January 4, published in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat (DOGC), in defense of Catalan and social cohesion that is reaffirmed in “continuing to promote and promote the actions necessary to guarantee its legal protection as its social use & rdquor ;, while rejecting “any illegitimate and unjust attack & rdquor; against the educational community or groups in defense of linguistic immersion. The oranges consider that these lines “proclaim their will not to implement 25% of teaching in Spanish, allocating resources to violate the rights of citizens protected by the TSJC and induce officials to violate them as well & rdquor ;.

As for institutional advertising, they ask the Court of Auditors to be activated after the launch of some ads in which there are illustrations with the message “in school, Catalan, and then in the street the rest of languages”. In an interview with Efe, the spokesman for Citizens in the Catalan Chamber, Nacho Martin BlancoHe labels the campaign as “aberrant” and “propagandistic” because far from responding to the general interest of an institutional message it would pick up “pure separatist argumentation.”

In the argument launched by the party after announcing the judgment of the TSJC in the school of Canet de Mar (Barcelona) that has been replicated in other educational centers, they claim “to guarantee the free choice of the vehicular language and the consultation of the parents of their educational preference for their children “, reinforce the High Inspection of the State in Catalonia and urge the State advocacy “to follow up on judicial decisions in this area in order to ensure their full compliance”.

From Congress to the EU

The battle is also being fought outside of Catalonia. At Congress of Deputies, where they seek to involve the Government so that the Government complies with the sentence or, otherwise, at least erode the president Pedro Sanchez for “inaction”, they have registered a battery of questions to find out what actions the central Executive intends to promote to guarantee compliance with 25% of teaching hours in Spanish. All this, after the Government reached this agreement to provide legal support to teaching staff “in the face of possible attacks on the use of Catalan in education & rdquor; and that the response of the Ombudsman was “disappointing” for the orange ranks.

The training ensures that the Generalitat “will have no qualms when it comes to using public resources to try to circumvent its obligation to guarantee the adaptation of the linguistic projects of the educational centers of Catalunya & rdquor ;, for which they also try to make themselves heard in Europe.

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And there is an echo. Catalan Civil Society and Cs met for 45 minutes on December 9 with the Commissioner of Justice, Didier Reynders, to try to get the EU to force the Government to comply with the sentence of 25% of Castilian “as it does with Poland or Hungary.” Days later, the Catalan deputies addressed the human rights commissioner, Dunja Mijatovic, in a letter in which they request “protection, or at least the attention, of institutions such as the European Ombudsman or the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, as well as international public opinion in the face of a situation of systematic violation of rights, we insist, unusual in democratic Europe & rdquor ;.

They have not yet obtained a response, but they do not rule out opening new fronts. And the fact is that linguistic immersion is a main battle for the party, which saw them born in 2006 and which, now, in the worst vital moment of the formation, can be a motor to avoid the electoral shipwreck in the next contests.