The Balearic Government defends without nuances that the public exams of access to the university in the Islands use a text that defended positions of Catalan ideology, specifically a newspaper article where the Spanish language was described as the "language of an empire", it was associated with the Civil Guard and the "defeat" of the Catalan language was appealed to.

The Minister of Education of the Autonomous Executive, Martí March, has defended this controversial design of the exams. He has done so by saying that these texts promote "the critical capacity of students", educate them in values ​​and invite them to give their opinions. "To ask is not to offend," said the PSOE counselor, who in the Balearic Islands governs with Podemos and the nationalists of Més per Mallorca.

March has had to give explanations to the Balearic Parliament after demanding it from the opposition parties (PP, Cs and Vox) and has thus responded to a parliamentary inquiry from Ciudadanos, whose deputy in the House, Patricia Guasp, has asked for accounts for including analysis of texts with "clear ideological bias" in public educational tests.

The counselor has denied that there is indoctrination and has defended that "the Catalan needs the assistance of public administrations for his survival." He has even gone so far as to say that in other autonomous communities "I have read exams where Franco is advocated and nothing happens." "Students must have critical capacity," he wanted to settle.

As EL MUNDO reported, a text comment was included in the Catalan Language and Literature test held two weeks ago in Palma. The text chosen for this year by the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), the public center that coordinates and hosts the tests, was a journalistic opinion article published in the Ara newspaper on December 27 of last year, signed by the writer and Mallorcan columnist Melcior Comes.

In it, the author wrote about electronic voice assistants and, among other considerations, he reflected on the fact that these household appliances are not yet adapted to process and answer in Catalan.

In line with this argument, on which the exam asked the students for their opinion, the article object of the controversy, obviously written in Catalan, the co-official language in the Balearic Islands together with Spanish, literally said: "At the moment these devices are quite in tune if You speak to them in Spanish but we have to wait for the day when they will be available in Catalan. " And he added: "If this day does not come, we are lost" because "if we spend so many hours talking with these devices in Spanish it will be one more defeat for our language -in allusion to Catalan-, more significant than the one we suffer day by day in the administration of justice or on the cinema billboard ".

After explaining that more and more users are offering to help developers to introduce the use of Catalan and thus contribute to helping "users in Catalan countries", the author added the phrase that has generated the most controversy: "We are talking about an assistant who helps or distracts us, not from a civil guard, but at the moment it doesn't work if you don't speak the language of an empire ".

In addition to Cs, a group of teachers from the Balearic Islands called 'Plis Educación', the PP and Vox denounced these events when considering it an example of indoctrination in the Catalan cause promoted by public education by the Balearic Government led by the PSOE.

For Plis and other related organizations it is a clear imposition of the "independence dialectic" aimed at "subliminally manipulating young people", in this case boys between 17 and 18 years old about to enter university. Close to the age of majority, as March has justified to argue his critical capacity.

For Vox Baleares, "radical Catalanism has slipped in" and the Civil Guard is "mocked". Jorge Campos, president of the party of Abascal in the Islands, said that "once again we see how the left in the hands of the separatists even uses something as important as the Selectivity tests for its gross indoctrination." Students are branded as "blackmail": "How are they going to rate the one who dares to disagree with their pan-Catalan fanaticism?"

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