The PP and Vox fill the strategic projects law with amendments on other issues

PalmThe PP and Vox parties have used the parliamentary process of the strategic projects law to introduce dozens of unrelated issues. These range from tax cuts and the elimination of the Catalan language requirement for some teachers and public administration positions, to the creation of an anti-unemployment office. The far right has even gone so far as to introduce matters so far removed from the law's purpose as, for example, allowing military personnel to fill positions in local police forces or even to Castilianize place names. Meanwhile, the PP has taken advantage of the situation to carry out a profound reform of the Tax Agency of the Islands (ATIB) through this law. In a letter addressed to the Parliament's Bureau, MÁS per Mallorca has raised the alarm and demanded that they not be admitted for processing.

This practice is common in Parliament. In fact, both the PSIB and MÁS have submitted amendments to this law so that itApprove extraordinary measures to address the price increases resulting from the war in IranHowever, the pro-independence activists believe that, in this case, the amendments are justified because they respond to an unforeseen emergency. In the document they have submitted to the Bureau, they request that the remaining amendments unrelated to the bill not be accepted, in accordance with Article 125 of the Parliament's Rules of Procedure, which states that the Bureau "will only admit for consideration those amendments whose content is related to the subject matter of the bill's title," except for [BK_SLT_LNA]. They also warn in the document that there are three amendments that they are requesting be rejected because they affect rights enshrined in the Spanish Constitution and the Statute of Autonomy, and "violate the principle of non-retroversion of rights, which prevents the regression or loss of rights from annulling rights previously consolidated by legislation approved since the restoration of self-government institutions." These are the language amendments agreed upon by the PP and Vox parties, which establish the elimination of the Catalan language requirement for teachers in hard-to-fill positions and the removal of the requirement for various basic job categories in the civil service, for both civil servants and contract workers.

"The current regional law in the Balearic Islands unequivocally guarantees the requirement of knowledge of the Catalan language for both civil servants and other employees of the public administration," they state in their text. "This requirement is neither optional nor secondary." They further warn that "the language requirement is a structural imperative stemming from the official status of the language itself and the mandate for linguistic normalization." "Any attempt to reduce, eliminate, or postpone this requirement directly contradicts the current legal framework," they argue.