Language.Baleares, against the 'infidels' to the use of Catalan
Balearic Islands.The Government launches a campaign for parents to learn Catalan
The Balearic Government has forgotten Spanish
to advertise a package of economic aid aimed at the unemployed in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Although the campaign is sensitive and of general interest, the Executive of the socialist Francina Armengol
only addresses those who know the Catalan language
.
For a few days, the media have been reporting
a new service for discontinuous landlines
in which the extension of the ERTES until January 31 is also announced.
"It will benefit discontinuous landlines in all sectors of the Balearic Islands",
indicates the full-page advertising
in local newspapers written only in Catalan.
The cabinet of the presidency of the Balearic Government confirms that
it is not an error
and reasons for the exclusion of Spanish in its own decree of 2018 which, according to its interpretation, requires that all institutional advertising be written in Catalan.
Article 10 of this regulation, however, says that it will be written or issued "normally" in Catalan
, opening the hand to bilingualism.
In no case does it say that it will be done exclusively in Catalan.
The Balearic Executive of the PSOE, in coalition with United We Can and the nationalists of Més, explains that "
this advertising campaign has been carried out [only] in Catalan in accordance with Decree 49/2018 of December 21 on the use of languages officers in the administration of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands
".
Specifically,
article 10
of this regulation says that "advertising promoted by the administration
in the Balearic Islands or within the Catalan linguistic field
in the written, audiovisual or radio media must normally be written or broadcast in Catalan".
From the Balearic Government they allege that the information on this advertising campaign
can be consulted in Spanish and Catalan on its website
, as well as the rest of the institutional information that it disseminates through its official portal.
Advertising campaign of the Balearic Government for aid for the coronavirus.
COMPLAINT TO THE OMBUDSMAN
The Hablamos Español association has filed a complaint with the Ombudsman for excluding Spanish from the writing of these advertisements in the written press and radio of the Balearic Islands.
"
For us, as an association that defends respect for linguistic co-officiality, this new discrimination is especially outrageous, since it is sensitive information for workers at a time as delicate as this,
" criticizes the association chaired by Gloria Lago.
From Hablamos Español they encourage the Executive of Armengol and all public or private organizations to
use the two official languages of the Balearic Islands -Spanish and Catalan-
in their communications and campaigns.
"We had valued positively that
in the health information on Covid-19, the Balearic Government had used primarily a bilingual format
, something that seemed novel and hopeful," says Lago, who claims that the values of "respect and tolerance" be prioritized. .
The political organization Now Mallorca has denounced through Twitter the use of bilingualism by the Government of Francina Armengol and has equated it with that of the former president of the PP, José Ramón Bauzá.
A few weeks ago,
Ara Mallorca
criticized that the official Twitter of the Balearic Government appeared in Catalan and Spanish.
The sovereignist political organization demanded that "Catalan be the only language"
with which the Executive of Francina Armengol expresses itself and requested "firmness" from Armengol's partners, the nationalists of Més and Podemos, "as parties defending the Catalan language and members of the Government ".
After the complaint, Ara Mallorca
boasted that those responsible for communication "rectified
", erased the bilingual description - it said "official account of the Government of the Balearic Islands" - and used
monolingualism
in Catalan.
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