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Updated Thursday, February 15, 2024-00:07

One of the most ostentatious falsehoods of Pedro Sánchez's "plurinational Spain" is respect for linguistic diversity. In his name, the PSOE and its nationalist partners force the use of Catalan, Basque and Galician in the Congress of Deputies, while

in the autonomous communities they impose monolingualism against the common language of the State.

That is the reality in Catalonia and in most Basque classrooms; It is the route started in the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community; and that is what

he BNG plans for Galicia if it manages to take the Xunta from Alfonso Rueda.

Where the PP displays a "cordial bilingualism" that Feijóo sees as exportable to the rest of Spain, Ana Pontón sets the goal of complete immersion in Galician.

Like all nationalism, the BNG feeds on exacerbating identity conflicts.

But the case of Galicia is especially serious: for the first time in its history, a systemic party like the PSOE is betting on radical nationalism to govern. As we have been reporting, the socialist electoral team, which once again presents the elections as a struggle between two fronts, works to mobilize an electorate that it knows will nourish the BNG. In short, Sánchez's candidate is not José Ramón Gómez Besteiro but Ana Pontón. In order to retain the Moncloa

, the PSOE has resigned from leading its own project to act as a subordinate of a radical party that demands self-determination and promises

catalanize

the school

. A path that violates rights and harms students, as has just been proven by the European delegation that traveled to Catalonia in December to learn about its immersion system.

The MEP rapporteur has drafted a harsh report that dismantles the parallel reality maintained by the PSOE and its allies. She notes that

Spanish is treated as a "foreign language";

says that education should be offered in both languages, as dictated by Justice; denounces that the children of families who are forced to go to court to claim the minimum of 25% are subject to

"hate speech", "bullying" and "intimidation";

remember that when attending some meetings in Barcelona, ​​MEPs were received with "offensive protests" and even police presence. And he demands the intervention of both the Generalitat and the Government of Spain. This is a document of extraordinary value that would not have been possible without the push of civil society (the Assembly for a Bilingual School) or the commitment of Cs and PP.

Yesterday the socialists once again portrayed themselves as trying to boycott the debate on this report in the European Parliament. The argument was eloquent: Europe should not enter into something that is the "exclusive competence" of Spain.

Nationalism has taken over the PSOE, which, while boasting of containing it, actively works in its favor.

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