The PSC, Esquerra, Junts and the commons are much more optimistic and at the same time cautious today than they were a few days ago when it comes to judging whether they will reach an agreement that allows the preservation of the Catalan language in the face of the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC ), which requires teaching 25% of classes in Spanish. They are more cautious because JxCat, who for the other three formations has been the bad guy in the film during the negotiations, although he still receives criticism, it is no longer in the form of disqualifications. But they are also more confident because the two-pronged approach of urgently promoting a decree law from the Government and at the same time a new law in Parliament may be the way to satisfy all the parties involved.
The formations exchange documents and maintain “permanent contacts”, as the leader of En Comú Podem in the Catalan Chamber, Jéssica Albiach, assured yesterday. According to what they understand, the government’s decree law would cover directors and teachers in the face of any legal action on their language projects. The text also makes explicit the rejection of the application of percentages of languages ??in education. “The organization of the teaching and use of languages ??in the centers is based on (…) the non-application of numerical parameters, proportions or percentages”, says the last proposal exchanged. It is a clarification expressly designed for Junts to rejoin the consensus from which it began to drop in March.
In parallel, the other law, the parliamentary one, if an agreement is reached, would be approved in the Chamber this week. Above all, I would avoid the percentages that are present in the decree, because Salvador Illa, first secretary of the PSC, already warned on Saturday that his party “has not made and will not make any agreement to breach or avoid judicial decisions.”
The new norm, in any case, could be to the liking of the Socialists, basically because it is quite similar to the reform that was agreed in March. Some point is added again for Junts to add: that in the classrooms welcoming newcomers the language “of normal use” will be Catalan.
Be that as it may, the agreement seems close if the words of Jéssica Albiach and Jordi Turull, aspiring to the general secretary of JxCat, are taken as a reference. The first assured that there are “some fringes” to reach the agreement and was convinced that they will find a way to “shield Catalan and protect the addresses of the centers”. Turull, for his part, stated that he was “very optimistic”.
In ERC they admit that today they breathe both optimism and prudence. They don’t want to trust each other “until everything is tied up.” “We trust that this time no one will jump from the consensus,” they point out.
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