“The speeches will be delivered personally and live. The speaker may deliver his speech in any of the languages ??that have official status in any autonomous community in accordance with the Constitution and the corresponding Statute of Autonomy”.
The PSOE and ERC are negotiating a modification of the regulations of the Congress of Deputies in order to make effective the promise of the president of the Lower Chamber, Francina Armengol, so that Catalan, Basque and Galician can be used with complete normality in Parliament spanish
This is article 70.2, relating to debates and which so far only says: “Speeches will be delivered personally and out loud. The speaker may use the floor from the tribune or from the seat”.
Despite this, and pending negotiations between socialists and republicans to advance and become concrete, it is not specified whether the administrative acts or the registration of proposals or laws can also be carried out in one of the three co-official languages ??Along with Spanish .
The use of Catalan (also Valencian in the name it receives in the Valencian Community), Basque or Galician has been rejected for many years in the Lower House and long claimed by nationalist groups.
However, and as a result of the negotiation for the constitution of the new Congress Bureau after the July elections, in the first intervention of the new president of Congress, Armengol undertook to make possible the use of any of the official languages ??in Spain.
However, despite the fact that the president promised to incorporate the three languages ??immediately, shortly after she admitted that it required time and essential legal changes.
Sources of the negotiation assure that, once the agreement is sealed, it is planned to be presented as a law proposal. Both the parliamentary group of the PSOE and Esquerra want the modification of the regulation to be approved in an extraordinary plenary meeting called for this purpose.
The incorporation of Catalan, Basque and Galician is one of the conditions that the ERC put on the table to agree on the Congress Bureau with the PSOE. It is a point that the Socialists also undertook to incorporate with Junts per Catalunya. Republicans have accelerated so that the proposal crystallizes.
