New attack by Vox on the unity of the language: it wants IB3 to be done in "Mallorcan, Menorcan, Ibizan and Formenteran"

PalmVox once again attacks the unity of language in Parliament. This time it has done so with a question addressed to the Director General of IB3, Josep Codony, registered with the table of the control commission on the Radiotelevision of the Balearic Islands. "When will we be able to see a news report on IB3 in Mallorcan, Ibizan, Menorcan or Formenteran?" is the request that the spokesperson for the far-right, Manuela Cañadas, will make next Thursday in the parliamentary session. A question that has been registered in Spanish (Vox asked Parliament to stop translating its parliamentary initiatives) and which, predictably, the deputy will also formulate in this language, the language she usually uses.

It is not the first time that the party has made proposals close to linguistic secessionism. The President of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, who denies the unity of the Catalan language, asked that none of his speeches "made in Mallorcan (or any of the variants of the Balearic language) be translated into standard Catalan". He requested, among other issues, that the 'article salat' be maintained in the transcripts of the deputies' speeches in the Official Journal. In response to this request, the Board agreed to consult the UIB, which flatly rejected this initiative, considering that the denominations of Mallorcan and Balearic language used by Vox have no scientific basis. "The scientific and official name of the native language of the Islands is Catalan or Catalan language", the report, advanced by ARA Balears, remarked. Vox also asked the Government to replace the denomination of Catalan with 'Balearic languages' in the Statute of Autonomy, to which the Executive refused. "I want my daughters to study in Mallorcan, not in Catalan", Cañadas defended then in a speech entirely in Spanish. Likewise, Vox has asked for subsidies for the Reyal Acadèmi de sa Llengo Baléà, an institution that denies the unity of Catalan and advocates for an unscientific writing of the native language.

highlight the report, advanced by ARA Balears

The far-right has also criticized IB3 on several occasions. In a parliamentary intervention a year ago, deputy Sergio Rodríguez said that IB3 "is not necessary", and considered that the public television of the "previous regime" was "of higher quality, more objective and more cultural", in allusion to Francoism. He clarified this during a control commission on IB3 in the Chamber, in which Codony also appeared.