More than fifty former deputies from different parties, including some former senior officials and former socialist ministers, have written to the president of Congress in which they show their “rejection” of the use “contrary to the Constitution” of co-official languages. in Parliament: “No Spaniard needs an interpreter when speaking with another Spaniard,” they defend.
In the letter, they describe this decision as “scandalously hasty” and that, in their opinion, it represents “the breaking of a golden rule of demoliberal parliamentarism”, and that is that the modifications to the Regulations “must have broad agreement of the parliamentary groups, as has always happened”.
They thus consider that “the claim” that half of the Chamber “imposes such a far-reaching reform is an unacceptable deception, a true breach of the rules of any democratic system.”
This situation has led the signatories, among whom is Nicolás Redondo Terreros, who this Thursday was expelled from the PSOE “for contempt for the party’s acronym”, to show their “firmest rejection of a reform of the Regulations that contradicts the Constitution, does not adapt to our linguistic reality and is not reasonable.”
They remember that, as established by the Constitution, the common language is the only “official language of the State”, with a “duty to know it and the right to use it.”
The other languages ??“will also be official in the respective Autonomous Communities in accordance with their Statutes”, but, in no case, are they “co-official languages” of the State, which is why they consider that their use in the body that represents national sovereignty.
“The true intention of its promoters is to deny the condition of Spanish as a common language of the Spanish. The deputies would have to use the helmet or the earpiece to understand each other. That would be the new image of the Chamber, distancing politics from life normal for Spaniards,” they lament.
For all these reasons, they urge the deputies of the XV legislature to, “with a sense of responsibility and for the good of our coexistence, reject an initiative, by virtue of which Congress would change its nature and produce a serious constitutional mutation, aimed at its transformation towards a ‘plurinational reality'”.
“The plurality of languages ??spoken in our territory is, of course, a cultural wealth, which all Spaniards appreciate and care about preserving. But our greatest wealth is that we have a common language, in which all Spaniards understand each other without exception” , point out the signatories, among whom are socialists critical of the current leadership of the party such as Francisco Vázquez and others who have left their ranks such as Joaquín Leguina or José Luis Corcuera.
