The Catalan decree closes the door so that directors in favor of 25% Spanish can implement it

The Generalitat will exercise tight control over the schools of Catalonia to prevent any of its directors from being tempted to apply, autonomously and in defiance of the Government's postulates, the sentence of 25% Spanish.

Yesterday, the Executive chaired by

approved a decree that, beyond making explicit its intention to disobey the ruling of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), ties the management of the centers to ensure that their language policy fully coincides with the of the Generalitat.

The Government dictates the "non-application of numerical parameters, proportions or percentages in the teaching and use of languages", that is, it confirms that it will not set a minimum quota for Spanish, as required by the High Court.

And, next, it orders the public and concerted schools "to prepare a linguistic project [...] that follows the criteria established by the competent department in matters of education", that is, by the Ministry directed by

.

Later, the Government underlines in its decree that the Generalitat must "validate whether the linguistic project [of each school] is in accordance with current regulations and urge its modification if not."

Implicitly, the Cabinet of Aragonès refers to the law designed by the ERC, the PSC, Junts and the commons, which only recognizes Catalan as "vehicular" and does not make any reference to 25% Spanish.

Despite the fact that the rule has not yet been approved - after Vox, Cs and the PP have appealed it - the independence parties that make up the Government assume that it will see the light of day in the coming days to complete the ruse designed in order to circumvent the resolution of the TSJC.

The Generalitat says to act "without prejudice to the autonomy of the centers" and with the ultimate goal of "protecting" the directors.

For this, the decree establishes that the Generalitat "assumes responsibility for the legality of the linguistic projects that it validates."

Cambray is placed in the trigger, but deprives the centers of any room for maneuver to obey what is dictated by Justice.

Today the Minister of Education will influence this double strategy with the sending of "specific instructions" to school principals.

He will do it just on the day that the term dictated by the TSJC to execute the sentence expires, but more than predictably, to circumvent it, instead of ordering his subordinates to comply with it and to specify the way in which they must bury the sentence. immersion.

This second package of measures to avoid setting a minimum percentage of hours in Spanish in the centers will not have the approval of the PSC, which yesterday ruled out supporting the Government's decree when it is submitted for validation in Parliament, knowing that its collaboration is not necessary for it to be endorsed.

A week after entering through the front door in the linguistic quadripartite of which ERC, Junts and the commons are also part, with the approval of a law that the independence movement warned was going to use to try to shield the immersion, the formation chaired by

opposes the government decree because "it does not comply with the ruling of the TSJC", "it does not mention the curricular use of Spanish" and "it challenges the courts".

The socialist tightrope walk reaches a new level by ignoring in its urgent argumentation that neither the norm that it signed less than a week ago granted Castilian the condition of "vehicular", nor did it comply with the sentence, insofar as it did not set any minimum percentage of teaching in the common language.

For what constituted, de facto, a challenge to the ruling of the TSJC.

The PSC distanced itself from the Government yesterday as if it were unaware of its intentions, but the truth is that Aragonès has already announced that its Executive was preparing a decree to keep immersion in force while negotiating with the socialists the linguistic law that had its support.

While the PSC tried to justify its incongruous position on the run, Aragonès boasted of "guaranteeing Catalan in schools and the Catalan school model" by decree.

"We defend the Catalan language in the classrooms," insisted the president of the Generalitat, avoiding any allusion to Spanish in his speech.

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