PP and Vox describe Yolanda Díaz's support for speaking Catalan in Congress as a "smokescreen" and "grotesque"

The proposal of Junts per Catalunya that Catalan can be spoken, in addition to Basque and Galician, in the Congress of Deputies, described as “advance towards a more plural country” yesterday by Yolanda Díaz, has not had the same reception in the ranks of the PP and Vox who have affirmed that, on the popular side, it is “a smoke screen” and, on the other, “grotesque” for being “a concession to the separatists”.

These are the reactions that the center-right parties have articulated to the proposal that the co-official languages of the State can be used in the Lower House as is already the case in the Senate.. “I don't think it's a real demand from the Spanish, I go out and nobody asks me. People are not concerned about that, they are concerned about employment and purchasing power in families”, remarked the people's deputy secretary, who indicated, however, that “there would be no problem” on the part of his party in the use of those co-official languages, as is already the case in the Senate.

For his part, Vox's Vice President of Political Action, Jorge Buxadé, in an interview on La Hora de La 1, pointed out that Díaz's support is “grotesque” because it is presented as “one more concession to the separatists.”. Among them, he has cited “that the president of Congress not be the transmission belt of the Government”, “change abusive practices” such as, instead of presenting bills with the reports of the Council of State, present bills without them or “greater control to the president of the Government, ending the figure of head of the opposition” which, as he has asserted, limits the control capacity of other leaders such as Santiago Abascal. “When we have guaranteed the democratic functioning of our chambers, we will see the rest,” he stressed before concluding that his party would support “a reform of the regulations” of the Lower House if these issues were included.

Yesterday, the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, when asked about the Junts per Catalunya proposal to allow the use of these languages in Congress as part of her demands for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, stated that it would mean “advance towards a country that is plural, it is diverse and it gains rights for the different identities we have” because Spain is “a country of countries”. “It is a model that has a constitutional fit and diversity is greater wealth for our country,” added the leader of Sumar.