The candidate of Cs, Carlos Carrizosa, compared this Friday the linguistic policy of the Government with the German ministry of population surveillance during the second half of the 20th century, the so-called Stasi, and warned the PSC that there is “the slightest possibility” If he could lead an Executive without pro-independence parties, Cs’s support would be conditional on his entry into it.
At the press conference organized by the Catalan News Agency (ACN), Carrizosa explained that “compliance with the pacts can only be guaranteed by the Government” and defended that Cs wants to be “useful” to Catalan politics. However, the candidate of the orange formation closes the electoral campaign this Friday by admitting that maintaining representation in the future Parliament would be “heroic.”
Currently, Cs has six deputies and for Carrizosa it would be a “good result” not to disappear from the Catalan Chamber.
On the other hand, Carrizosa criticized the new language management plan in public health, approved this Thursday by the Department of Health, and defends that the sector “has other problems” that do not involve citizens “correcting and self-censoring.” if they use Spanish. For the Cs candidate, creating the figure of the “linguistic commissioner” represents a “setback” that Catalonia “does not deserve.”
Regarding the instructions of the Department of Health, with the aim of preserving the linguistic rights of citizens in health facilities, Carrizosa believes that the Generalitat should be concerned about the needs and problems in the diagnoses and treatments of patients. In this sense, he regrets that the Government’s linguistic policy is one of the “problems derived from the independence movement” that still persist and that make, in his opinion, the presence of Cs in the future Parliament necessary. With the surveys against it, Cs appeals to the work carried out in the last eighteen years to normalize the use of Spanish. “If Cs is not here, we will go back eighteen years,” she says.
In this context of hostility towards Spanish that is explained by the orange formation, statements such as those of the PSC candidate, Salvador Illa, apologizing for referring to Lleida as Lérida would be explained. Carrizosa defends that you can speak Spanish and Catalan interchangeably “if you feel like it” and regrets that one of the best-placed candidates for 12-M corrects himself linguistically “by saying a place name in Spanish.” The Cs candidate longs, he says, for the time when the two languages ??coexisted “normally” and reproaches the independence movement for having “twisted” coexistence through language.
