The leader of Junts Per Catalunya, Carles Puigdemont, has landed on Tuesday in the Prada de Conflent Summer University (France) asking for patience to. “There is a route and we will fight it until the end,” he said, without also ruling out that goal, contained in the investiture agreements of Pedro Sánchez, through the courts if the diplomatic path did not bear fruit. The too former president of the Govern He has delivered a conference on Language and Europe, in which he has criticized that the Spanish State has not repaired the damage caused by Franco to the speakers of Catalan, Galician and Basque and the initiative at the meeting of the EU General Affairs Council, where the exterior holders of the twenty -seven are felt.
“We have to be patient, it is an intense maturation process,” Puigdemont has asked, that despite criticizing the slowness to achieve the necessary unanimity in the Council, the good offices made by the Sánchez government have almost come to achieve that goal to achieve that goal. The current executive, has said regarding the recognition of linguistic diversity, “explains and says” by a Spanish government and has defended the robustness of the dossier with which the initiative to the ministers is explained.
Puigdemont has avoided putting temporary limits to the achievement of the officiality and has taken chest from the path traveled, in addition to getting co -official languages in the Spanish Courts. He former president He did not want to go into time and how he would affect the duration of Sánchez’s legislature, to which he has always threatened to break if there is no progress in the commitments acquired by the Socialists. “In each council meeting there is the opportunity to get it [la oficialidad]and there is a litigation path that is not ruled out, ”he recalled.
The chief of rows of Junts has also taken the opportunity to load against the argument that a language to be official has to be a language of treaties and has assured that there are previous legal reports that corroborate that thesis. In his opinion, the no The officiality is only understood by political reasons, not of economic or legal nature and has considered that by the government its European partners.
“To prevent Catala from recovering the normality of which it would be entitled is to perpetuate Franco’s victory over our language,” said Puigdemont. For him former presidentthe most revealing is that he considers that whoever contributes the most to the blockade of the officiality in the Council “are for the victory of Spanish fascism against the Spanish and Catalonia Republic.” He pointed to both PP and Germany, although without citing it. At the last meeting, last July, the German minister for European affairs, Gunther Krichbaum, raised the need for a reform of the treaties to legally justify the officiality of the Basque, the Galician and the Catalan.
For Puigdemont, even waiting for justice to decide whether or not to apply the amnesty law approved for those prosecuted by the process Independentista, the central government has moved very late. “We have lost trains that passed,” said the former presidentin reference to the change of government in Germany, in reference to the departure of the executive of that country of the socialist Olaf Scholz and the arrival of conservative Friedrich Merz. And at that point he has returned to deepen the criticism of the training led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo: “I do not seem very loyal that a party that is in the opposition to a government has to call other countries, taking advantage of the fact that it sends its party, to say: ‘Do the favor of touching the eggs to my government, to the kingdom of Spain, because this that comes I do not like,” he said.
Given the decline of the social use of Catalan that show different surveys and studies, Puigdemont has assured that the first responsibility of guaranteeing the survival of the language is of its speakers and has invited the audience not to give up using it in its technological devices and in its media consumption. While he has defended that the official in Europe would give him a “colossal protection layer” to the language of Catalonia, he has also put the Generalitat – another point of the investiture pact – as one of the key tools for the promotion of language.
“If the tongue fails, everything fails,” Puigdemont said, citing the linguist Pompeu Fabra. For the former Government Chief, it cannot be ignored that it is thanks to the immigration that Catalonia does not lose even more population and therefore sees an “error” to survive. “Hence, he believes that it is necessary that the parliament can legislate on it.“ If a person does not understand what a coffee with milk [café con leche en catalán] o o Panxa Evil [dolor de estómago]no official should give the report for renewal [de la residencia]”, There is skewed.
Puigdemont has said that this approach is not his or new, but already appears within the N, in force since last May. There it is established that, in order for roots or to request the regrouping are favorable, it is essential to certify “the knowledge and respect of the constitutional values of Spain”, “the statutory values of the autonomous community in which it is resided” and “the learning of the official languages of the place of residence”.
