• Politics Nationalism challenges the presidency of Congress and claims to speak in their mother tongues

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Congress, with the majority of the PSOE, PP, Vox and Ciudadanos, has refused to use the co-official languages ​​in the Lower House as requested this week by the Catalan and Basque nationalists supported by United We Can.

The plenary session of Congress has voted against the proposed law of the ERC, PNV and the

Plural Group

that asked to reform the regulations of Congress so that the co-official languages ​​can be spoken in the interventions of the plenary session, in the parliamentary commissions and in the recorded writings.

The initiative was rejected this Thursday by 268 votes against, 71 votes in favor and 2 abstentions (CC and Teruel Exists), and contrasts with another similar initiative that is being processed in the Senate to expand the use of Catalan, Basque and Galician in the parliamentary activity of the Upper House.

Last Tuesday, Basque, Galician, Valencian, Asturian and Aragonese Catalan nationalism challenged the presidency of Congress when its deputies asserted their languages ​​by speaking in the plenary gallery in their own languages ​​and although they were allowed a few minutes to speak, the Most of them had the use of the floor withdrawn after being reprimanded three times.

United We Can, ERC, PNV, EH Bildu, JxCat, PDeCAT, BNG, the CUP and Compromís claimed a plurinational Spain and the richness of its languages ​​and criticized the "supremacy" of Spanish in the activity of the Congress, after requesting simultaneous translations to maintain the survival of their languages.

Joint declaration

These parties signed a joint declaration in which they recalled that the

European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages

, approved by the

Council of Europe

in 1992, establishes the right to use the respective languages, both in public and private life, and they have lamented that your future is "critical".

The deputies warned that in order to demonstrate the prohibition that weighs on the co-official languages, they reserve the option of expressing themselves in this way in the plenary sessions of Congress in order to keep this claim alive.

PP, Vox and Cs have criticized that the nationalists want to impose their languages ​​on all Spaniards and have argued that its implementation in Congress would entail a high economic cost in times of crisis, while the PSOE has distanced itself from this argument and has insisted that there is already a "balance" in the use of the co-official languages ​​in the Courts, since the Senate is studying whether to extend their implementation.

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