Yesterday it was known that the Executive had agreed to repeal the labor reform, as it was among the commitments of PSOE and Podemos to form a coalition government.

This is not the only announcement that overlaps with what was previously established: the audiovisual production quota in Catalan claimed by ERC to save the Budgets is now perfectly possible without the need for the agreement signed last Friday.

Like all common narratives, the understanding between the Republicans and the Socialists has been forged with an approach, a knot and an outcome, even the

PSOE

yes

to the insistent demand of the pro-independence party to support the General State Budgets. There has been no lack of emotion, such as that sought by Netflix and other platforms in their content, but this claim "

was not necessary" and could only be justified by ERC's intention of "scoring a bit political"

, as they have recognized EL WORLD different sources from the audiovisual sector and the Government itself.

The Republican party spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, boasted last Friday that there will be "a quota of audiovisual production in Catalan", demanded in recent weeks since his political formation as a sine qua non condition for not presenting an amendment to all of the new PGE. In this way,

streaming

services

such

as Netflix, HBO or Amazon Prime Video will supposedly be forced to include a minimum of productions in co-official languages, a commitment that would be framed in the new General Law on Audiovisual Communication. The preliminary draft of this regulation, whose final wording is not yet known, will have to be sent to the Council of Ministers for approval and subsequent parliamentary processing.

Now, regardless of the resulting text, the basis stipulated in the current audiovisual law would be maintained, as long as any article is not explicitly annulled, and the current regulations already stipulate that “

the Autonomous Communities with their own language may approve additional regulations

for the

audiovisual media services in their jurisdiction in order to promote audiovisual production in their own language

. "

In other words, to support the Budgets, ERC did not require the incorporation of a quota in the new law, since the Government can already promote Catalan with additional rules.

Different interlocutors of the Government and of the platforms on demand thus would have transmitted it to the Catalan party, which in any case considered

"essential" to "protect the Catalan language

within the framework of the audiovisual law of the Spanish State", as highlighted by Marta Vilalta, ERC spokesperson.

The Catalan consultation

For its part, Junts Per Catalunya maintains that creating a Catalan audiovisual law, no longer a state one, is "the best amendment to Spanish law", in the words of its spokesperson in Parliament, Mònica Sales. Beyond the ideological barrage, there are certainly Catalan audiovisual regulations and, in fact, the draft to modify the current regional law is currently going through its public consultation phase. In fact, the General Directorate of Language Policy has been "in talks" with Netflix throughout the year, as the Government itself has admitted.

But the debate has moved to the Spanish audiovisual regulations, with an unusual leading role in the new Budgets.

"It would be worth checking if this claim is really a support for linguistic diversity, which could be achieved simply with subtitles, or rather an

underground attempt to boost the Catalan industry,

" they launch from one of the affected companies.

Not surprisingly, in Esquerra there are 26,000 jobs in the audiovisual sector in Catalonia.

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