Vox overturns the Catalan government's acceleration decree to avoid giving in to the Catalan issue.

PalmVox asserted its five seats on Tuesday and defeated the government's decree-law accelerating projects. The far-right warned that it would not support the bill if the People's Party (PP) did not agree to process its proposal to introduce Spanish as the language of instruction in schools, and it has made good on its threat. However, MP Sergio Rodríguez asserted in his speech that "this is not a front page." "From there, it's a matter of continuing, sitting down, negotiating, refining this decree, and bringing it back when the conditions we consider are met," he stated.

With this time on the table, Vox is making clear the price the PP must pay if it wants to advance its legislative agenda for the remainder of this term: language in schools. However, Rodríguez did not refer to this at any point, but rather justified his vote against the decree on the grounds that it raises issues that are too favorable to the 2030 Agenda, Vox's public enemy number one. The reason is that it allows the implementation of renewable energy on rural plots. "We don't want to take carob trees to plant solar panels," he said. "This is not our model of investment, sustainability, and development."

"The text of the decree law was agreed word for word with Vox months ago," said First Vice President and Minister of Economy, Antoni Costa. Vox sources admitted that they were waiting for orders from the party's state leadership just minutes after announcing their position: Santiago Abascal's strategy has once again set the tone in the Balearic Parliament. However, Costa warned that on this occasion the government "has said enough" and will not go any further on language issues. "We neither accept nor will we ever accept blackmail," he declared. Although the PP was willing to introduce the vehicular use of Spanish in the Education Law, it considered that the text presented by Vox went beyond this agreement and affected the Minimum Decree and the Normalization Law, two red lines of the Government of Marga Prohens.

This is not the first time that the PP and Vox have disagreed when it comes to formalizing an agreement on paper: the Popular Party has already been reject the far-right's Linguistic Office Because, although they had accepted its creation, they considered the text presented by Manuela Cañadas's party to be a "legal botch-up." But this time, the "no" vote on Vox's bill has cost the government the death of a decree law that was in force. This is the second government law that Vox has defeated this term, highlighting the PP's minority in Parliament. It did so with the first spending cap of the 2024 budget, which was finally approved, but at the cost of significant concessions from the PP to its partners.