The question of language has become the main battlehorse of the independence in Catalonia, which demonstrated on Saturday in Barcelona.
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Since Canet del Mar, a small town of the Costa Brava, a family has obtained justice that 25% of the courses received by his 5-year-old daughter are given in Spanish, the anger rands in Catalonia. Saturday, December 18, several thousand people – 35,000 according to the police – marched in Barcelona to defend the linguistic immersion, which, since 1983, made Catalan the only language vehicular language. Present in the procession, the President of the Catalan Government, Father Aragonés, from the Party of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), has, a denounced “an offensive of Spanish nationalism”.
While the Catalan separatist leaders condemned for the October 2017 secession attempt have covered freedom, as a result of the graces granted in June by the Spanish Government, the question of language has become the main battlehorse of the Independentist. No doubt the last one who still unites them, while the movement is running out of steam – 39% of the respondents are in favor of independence, against nearly 53% which are opposed to it – and that the ERC has renounced the links with The Spanish government, of which it is one of the main supports.
Left formation comes to negotiate with the President of the Executive, the Socialist Pedro Sanchez, the approval of the Finance Law 2022, in exchange for a reform of the audiovisual law, which should Forcing platforms to dedicate part of their benefits to financing productions in Catalan, and increase the funds allocated by the government to dubbing in the co-official languages of the State.
“do not Politicize the language “
In recent weeks, campaigns have been launched in Catalan universities to report teachers around Spanish. And local educational authorities have invited school managers to better control the language used by teachers. But no controversy has only inflamed the debate as that of Canet del Mar, occurring after the decision of the Supreme Court to guarantee 25% of Castilian courses in the schools of Catalonia.
“It is an intolerable interference of justice in an educational model that enjoys a great consensus in society, avoids segregation of students according to their mother tongue and guarantees the learning of Catalan and Castillan”, ensures In the world the vice-president of the Association Omnium Cultural, Marcel Mauri. “For many children, school is one of the rare normalization spaces for the use of Catalan,” also defends the spokesperson for the Language Platform, Oscar Adria Ibañez, although 84% of the inhabitants of Catalonia speak it and 94% understand it.
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