The OCB demands Prohens to disauthorize Álvarez de Toledo's proposal to ban Catalan in Congress
The entity demands that the president of the Government exercise the statutory responsibility to defend the language and asks the Balearic PP to disavow its party colleague
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PalmaThe Obra Cultural Balear (OCB) has responded to the intentions of the PP candidate for Congress for Madrid, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, to ban the use of co-official languages in the lower house. The entity has demanded that the Government and the president, Marga Prohens, defend the Catalan language, and has asked the Balearic PP to disavow the statements of their party colleague.
"It would be quite convenient for Prohens to exercise the function that statutorily corresponds to them in defense of our language and for the Balearic PP to disavow the announcement of their coreligionist", the entity wrote in a tweet.
The OCB has described as a "historic milestone" the modification of the Congressional regulations that, in September 2023, allowed deputies to express themselves in any of the State's official languages. The entity considers the proposal by Álvarez de Toledo, number two on the Popular Party's ticket for Madrid, to be a "threat to the freedom" of parliamentarians to use their preferred official language.
