Hemeroteca The turn of the PSOE unleashes the war so that the bable is co-official language in Asturias
Courts ask for two years in jail for Álvarez-Cascos for charging Foro Asturias personal expenses
The official status of the Asturian is very close to the accounts coming out. Its defenders, the 26 deputies of PSOE, Podemos and Izquierda Unida, need only one more to reach the three-fifths of the
General Meeting of the Principality
that are needed to reform the
Statute of Autonomy
. And that missing vote will most likely be that of
Adrián Pumares
, the only representative of
Foro Asturias
.
"Our language is an essential part of our heritage," Pumares proclaimed at the
IV Extraordinary Congress
that the regionalist party held this Saturday in
Oviedo
. "We consider
llingua
and
fala
, naturally together with Spanish, as the own languages of Asturias. We propose a legal framework for them, in accordance with the provisions of
article 3
of the
Spanish Constitution
and the European provisions on linguistic rights and that guarantee their use without any hindrance and also without any imposition for all those who do not know them, the same as we have been saying for a decade ".
The novelty in terms of the position of Foro Asturias resides in what it does not say, the clarification repeated so many times in recent years that they would only support it "when the political circumstances and the necessary social consensus arise." A nuance completely absent in the speech of Pumares this Saturday and also in that of the president of the party,
Carmen Moriyón
, who has stressed that "from today, our political DNI expresses that Foro Asturias will focus all its efforts as a political party on the preservation of the identity of the
Principality of Asturias
as a political subject of historical significance, as well as the human, cultural, economic, social and political heritage that gives it consistency.
Defending for this in all institutional areas the complete personality of the Asturian people, always recognizing its plurality, diversity, universality and autonomy ".
The framework in which Foro builds its project, in the words of Moriyón, is the
constitutional
Spain
of the autonomies, "a project of union and progress in which everything is more than the sum of the parts, but Spain must also be understood from the territory. We defend the pride of being and feeling Asturian. It is our way of being and our way of feeling Spanish ".
Refoundation without Helmets
Ten years after its creation by the former general secretary of the PP Francisco Álvarez-Cascos, the regionalist party held a "re-founding" congress this Saturday in view of its critical situation on various fronts. On the one hand, it needs to repair its legal situation, as it was on the verge of forced dissolution after being required by the
Ministry of the Interior
because its statutes did not comply with current regulations. The economic situation is not better, and it has been bordering on bankruptcy and bankruptcy.
To all this must be added the profound political crisis that it has experienced in recent years with the constant threat of a split. Newly born, the party came to govern the Principality in 2011 thanks to the 16 deputies it achieved then, but it was a term of just 11 months by not adding any support to approve the Budgets. His representation has been declining until the two seats obtained in the 2019 regional elections, which have remained at only one after the expulsion of
Pedro Leal
a little over a year ago, accused of very serious offenses and boycotting the party.
The last episode of this rupture occurred this week with the departure of Francisco Álvarez-Cascos, who, already suspended from membership, signed his resignation after feeling "betrayed" by the current leadership of the party, which accuses him in the courts of misappropriation and for whom the Prosecutor's Office asks for two years in prison for having allegedly charged the party's accounts with personal expenses of 5,500 euros.
The former leader of the party was refusing to be an accomplice "of crude marketing maneuvers with the PSOE" every time he needs a vote in parliament or to approve the official status of the Asturian who is now defending the socialist government and who needs the support of the Forum to get ahead.
Asturian, center and liberal
The name of Francisco Álvarez-Cascos was not pronounced by any of the congress speakers. Carmen Moriyón, who chairs the party after having been the only non-socialist mayor of
Gijón
for eight years
, has presented her project of an Asturian, center and liberal party as the "only real alternative" to the hitherto hegemonic PSOE in Asturias. "We all know what has happened to this Principality of Asturias in the last 30 years of socialist governments: nothing, nothing has happened," he reported. "And we all know that whoever has not been able to be an alternative to nothing much less is going to defend us in
Madrid,
" he finished by pointing without citing him to the PP.
Moriyón has nominated his party to "defend Asturias" in the debate on Spain's autonomies to guarantee "coexistence, equality for all and fair financing of public services and the investment necessary for development."
From a community threatened by a deep demographic crisis, where, in the words of Pumares, last year there were 40 deaths and only 13 births each day, Carmen Moriyón stressed the need to "be in Madrid", and praised the deputies who have led his voice to the
Congress of Deputies
, where "the word Asturias is not pronounced if it is not carried by the deputy of Foro Asturias, and that is to be useful."
Moriyón has been supported through a video by other regionalist leaders such as the president of
the Navarre People's Union
(UPN) and leader of the opposition in the
Parliament of Navarra
,
José Javier Esparza
; the national deputy of
the Canarian Coalition
(CC),
Ana Oramas
and the president of
Cantabria
and president of
the Regionalist Party of Cantabria
Miguel Ángel Revilla
, who stated that he "never" would have agreed to support "the previous line" of the party and being "its president and founder" Francisco Álvarez-Cascos, but he does so because of this "commitment to honesty and cleanliness."
The new statutes were supported by 244 of the 321 delegates, 76%, while 5% (16) showed their rejection of the new text and 19% (61 representatives) abstained in the vote held throughout the last week and that ended this Saturday.
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