The PP buys Vox's amendments and will not require hundreds of teachers to prove Catalan proficiency

PalmThe PP has accepted Vox's amendment to eliminate the Catalan requirement for teaching positions in very hard-to-cover locations through the strategic projects acceleration law. Also those that lower the Catalan grade in secondary school needed to obtain the Catalan certificate (B2 and C1), allow local police to have tasers, and eliminate the ban on shooting the turtledove and the quail. Although this acceptance is still in the committee stage, meaning it is not definitive, the novelty is that the popular party has not submitted any amendments to these texts. Therefore, they will not introduce any obligation for hundreds of teachers affected by the regulations to have to prove their Catalan proficiency, not even to be able to choose their destination center once they consolidate their position, as they had said they would do.

Vox has celebrated in a statement the approval of these amendments. Especially, the one that refers to the elimination of the Catalan requirement for teachers in positions of very difficult coverage. According to ARA Balears explained, if this exemption had been applied this course, it could have affected 877 positions defined by the ministry as very difficult to cover: 549 in Ibiza, 186 in Formentera, 138 in Menorca, and 4 in Mallorca. With the approval of this amendment, the Government opens the door for hundreds of teachers to become civil servants without knowing the vehicular language of public schools.

The Minister of Education, Antoni Vera, clarified that teachers who obtain a position will not be able to choose a definitive school until they present the degree, so if they do not, they will rotate schools each year. But this clarification is not in the wording of the rule that the PP and Vox approved this Tuesday. The PP spokesperson, Sebastià Sagreras, has said that it will be introduced later, through an agreement of the Consell de Govern. "They will not be career civil servants with a definitive permanent position and each summer they will have to attend the position allocation process to only opt for these positions of very difficult coverage," he stated.

All in all, the spokesperson for MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, has denounced in a statement that the rule does not affect specific positions but "an entire specialty," which, according to MÉS, may have a structural impact on the use of Catalan within the educational system. "The PP's response to the social outcry that the Correllengua Agermanat has caused is of extreme cynicism," stated Apesteguia, who considers that these decisions represent a new 'attack on the language and identity' of the country. The deputy also described the incorporation of amendments that, according to him, have no relation to the content of the decree and imply a 'loss of rights for citizens and for children and young people' as a 'fraud of law.' In the same session, MÉS criticized the approval of two more measures: the recovery of pigeon shooting as a sports discipline and the equipping of the Police with taser guns. In the first case, the party has described it as an act of animal cruelty, while in the second, it has expressed its rejection of the measure.