A Vox MP: "If my party were to take the floor to ban Catalan, I would resign and go demonstrate."

Palm"We have absolutely nothing against the regional language of the Balearic Islands." With these words, Vox MP Sergio Rodríguez attacked the left this Tuesday, in the second session of the budget debate, accusing it of "lying." "We are deeply proud of having two languages," said Rodríguez, who always speaks in Spanish in the chamber. "If one day my group were to go up to this podium to ban Catalan, teaching, or expression in Catalan, I will leave my position and I will demonstrate with you at the doors of the Parliament," he continued.

According to Rodríguez, his party doesn't want to push Catalan backwards when it imposes on the PP issues such as the implementation of free language choice in the classroom or the inclusion of Spanish as a vehicular language in the Education Law. Lluís Apesteguia, representing Mallorca, emphasized that, with the departure of Idoia Ribas's parliamentary group, Vox will have gone from having eight to five deputies in just two years.

The Vox MP has responded to the criticism by recalling the situation of MÁS por Mallorca in Congress, which is in the midst of a debate on whether its deputy should leave the Sumar parliamentary group and withdraw support for President Pedro Sánchez"You've been trying to get a representative to Congress for 40 years. You obtained one with Sumar, and now you're thinking of abandoning this group, which is what gave you the representative you've never obtained on your own," Rodríguez said.