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At least hundreds of people, 2,000 according to the organizers, 450 according to the Prefecture, demonstrated this Saturday in Perpignan, in the south of France, in defense of Catalan, after the French Constitutional Council

vetoed the linguistic immersion

that is practiced in some schools of Northern Catalonia.

According to local media, the president of the Parliament of Catalonia,

Laura Borrás

,

participated in the protest

, as well as mayors of several French towns and elected officials from the French region.

"

Because our languages ​​live

," read the banner that led the demonstration that ran through the streets of the city, between Plaça de Catalunya and Plaça de Castillet.

Several interveners took the floor to show their dissatisfaction with the

decision of the Constitutional Council on the 21st

, which censored an article of the minority languages ​​law that allowed linguistic immersion approved last April.

"Individuals cannot use, in their relations with the administrations and public services,

the use of a language other than French,

" said the Constitutional Court in an opinion in which they recall that the second article of the Constitution stipulates that " the language of the Republic is French. "

Based on this principle, he considered that the bilingual system may be adequate if it favors the learning of regional languages, but in no case

allows linguistic immersion that relegates French

.

The Constitutional Court also removed from the norm the article that allows the use in civil registries of diacritical signs of languages ​​such

as Breton

, another of the most controversial points of the norm.

The law, known as Molac

after the Breton deputy who promoted it, seeks to promote the country's regional languages, such as Catalan, Basque, Breton or Corsican.

Thanks to it, the municipalities will be able to subsidize the

schooling of minors who wish to study those languages

.

The promoters of the law, with Molac at the head,

demand a revision of article 2 of the Constitution

to be able to include linguistic immersion.

In France, some

170,000 of the 12 million schoolchildren in the country are taught

in one of the recognized regional languages.

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