MÉS accuses Cort of sidelining Catalan in institutional advertising at the Llevant Green Park

PalmaMÉS per Palma has denounced that the signage and institutional advertising of the new Parc Verd de Llevant are written "exclusively in Spanish" and do not incorporate Catalan. The party considers that this situation constitutes a breach of the Municipal Regulation on Linguistic Normalization of Palma.

MÉS per Palma councilor Miquel Àngel Contreras has described it as "especially serious" that the City Council, through Emaya, is once again excluding the Balearic Islands' own language from public communication. "Palma City Council is breaching the Municipal Regulation on Linguistic Normalization," he stated.

According to MÉS, the regulation establishes that, as a general rule, City Council announcements and signage must be in Catalan. The party also recalls that the Law on Linguistic Normalization establishes that Catalan is the local administration's own language and that public signage must be done in this language and, in the case of being bilingual, Catalan must appear in the primary viewing position.

For this reason, MÉS per Palma demands that the posters and announcements of the Parc Verd de Llevant be modified and that the municipal government review the linguistic criteria it applies to institutional advertising.

Contreras has placed the episode within the political debate on the use of Catalan and has accused the PP of assuming "the demands of Vox in linguistic matters." "Catalan is not dispensable, and much less so in its own home," he concluded.