PP and Vox vote against restoring the Office for the Defense of Linguistic Rights

PalmThe People's Party (PP) on Tuesday supported several points of a motion by MÉS for Mallorca calling on the Catalan government to foster and promote the Catalan language. The motion was passed with only Vox opposing it. However, the PP joined forces with Manuela Cañadas's party against the points in the text that proposed recovering the budget of the Office for the Defense of Linguistic Rights, requesting a report from the UIB on the linguistic situation of the school population, and improving the regulatory framework to encourage the use of the native language.

Eco-sovereignty MP Maria Ramon, who defended the initiative, called on the government to "defend us from attacks on the language and not encourage its division and devaluation." In this regard, she demanded that "all measures that go against the Catalan language" be reversed, and asked the PSIB (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) to "defend" Catalan "with the same firmness" when in government and when in opposition. For his part, Socialist Àlex Pitaluga criticized the PP for lowering the Catalan language requirement for accessing the Civil Service and denounced a "regression" in the government's language policies. Representative Joana Gomila of Més por Menorca accused the PP of "disregarding Catalan" and "breaking the linguistic consensus."

The People's Party (PP): "Catalan cannot be a battlefield."

PP MP Ana Isabel Curtó, in turn, argued that her party "promotes its own language" and warned the left that "Catalan cannot be a battlefield." For this reason, she justified her vote against the points of the motion that present a "story of regressive or aggressive measures toward the language." Vox, for its part, accused MÁS por Mallorca of "generating hatred" in the Parliament. Speaking through Manuela Cañadas, she asked the PP whether it "will kneel or defend the freedom of its citizens and the Spanish Balearic culture."