Not only on mere disobedience does the Generalitat base its strategy to not apply the Supreme Court ruling that requires 25% of Spanish to be taught in all schools in Catalonia.

The Government of

Pere Aragonès is

working on a reform of the Education Law of Catalonia (LEC) with which it aspires to shield language immersion and be able to circumvent the court order before the deadline for its execution in February expires.

This has been recognized by the head of the Catalan Executive, who yesterday confirmed his intention to promote "a legislative change to strengthen the Catalan educational law in the face of certain judicial decisions." The Government has on the table a proposal from the School Council of Catalonia, an advisory body attached to the Generalitat, which claims to "clarify the regulatory framework that refers to language in school" in order to collide with the firm ruling of the Supreme Court. The maneuver would involve "retouching article 14 of the LEC" which refers to Catalan "as a vehicular and learning language", precisely to delve into that condition of the predominant vehicular language and enshrine the exclusion of Spanish as a teaching language.

The proposal of the Aragonès advisers also includes giving greater autonomy to the directors of the centers to be able to modulate the number of classes in Spanish that their students would receive depending on the linguistic context of the area in which they are, thus avoiding the 25% standard quota set by the Justice and regaining control of the educational language policy.

The Government also intends to reference in the new text the latest study carried out by the Higher Council for the Evaluation of the Educational System of the Generalitat, which describes a marked decrease in the use of Catalan in schools. This is how the Government seeks to refute the reports of the Department of Education itself on which the judgment of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia of December 2020 was based to justify the need to implement 25% of Spanish in schools due to its "residual" use in the educational system of Catalonia. Sentence that the Supreme Court has just ratified.

Aragonès aspires to agree to this legal reform after the Christmas break in the one baptized as the National Pact for Language, a conclave to which the PSC has been invited as the father of immersion. The head of the Catalan Executive is ambitious to tie the support of the socialists and the commons to his legal trick to defend his "legitimacy." The support of the party led by

Ada Colau

is taken for granted, and there is also interest among the socialists in being part of the agreement to avoid being singled out by the independence movement as accomplices of a strategy to bury the immersion.

There was already a first contact between the PSC and the Minister of Education,

Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray

, on the eve of the demonstration in defense of monolingualism that took place last week in Barcelona and in which the Socialists did not participate.

The position of the PSC is contradictory.

On the one hand, its new leader,

Salvador Illa

, has defended the need to abide by the Supreme Court ruling, but on the other he wants to participate in the "updating" of the immersion model, promoting its "flexibilization" to strengthen the presence of Spanish in Spanish schools. eminently Catalan-speaking areas, as he suggested in his 2019 congress through a proposal that he ended up rectifying in the face of the controversy in the most Catalan wing of the party.

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