Pere Aragonès rebels again before the Justice and marks a profile in linguistic matters before a possible change of Government after the celebration of the general elections next Sunday that will lead the PP to La Moncloa.
The president of the Generalitat has accused this Thursday the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TJSJC) of “overreaching its functions” after on Tuesday it granted 25% of Spanish to three other families despite the approval of the new laws and decrees of the Generalitat to maintain immersion.
“We will not modify our language policy”, the ERC leader then warned, to reiterate the position already expressed this week by the Minister of Education, Anna Simó, after the TSJC branded as “unconstitutional” the law approved between the PSC and the independence movement last year to block the execution of the sentence that forced all schools in Catalonia to teach another core subject in Spanish. Legislation that is currently being studied by the Constitutional Court to analyze its legality.
New law against Spanish
Faced with the possibility that the socialist law ends up being declared unconstitutional, the Government has promoted a new decree this week that consolidates Catalan as the only vehicular language in the educational system of Catalonia and includes the possibility of sanctioning teachers and principals who refuse to strictly apply immersion.
The Generalitat trusts that this decree will be definitively approved by April given the possibility that the law that now keeps the monolingual education system alive will be declared unconstitutional in the coming months. The strategy would then be to cling to this new decree to continue cornering Spanish in the schools of the region.
“The PP will address it”
This Thursday the head of the popular list for Barcelona, Nacho Martín Blanco has defended that the application of 25% of Spanish “is a matter of political will”. “If the Feijóo Government will address it,” he added, after the current socialist government of Pedro Sánchez avoided demanding the application of the historic linguistic sentence that dynamited the immersion.