The Plenary of the Constitutional Court (TC) has agreed this Wednesday to review the latest legal reform of the Generalitat of Catalonia that affects the use of Spanish in the classroom as a vehicular language.

The TC thus admits for processing the question of unconstitutionality presented by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC).

The two affected regulations, a royal decree of the Government and a subsequent law of the Parliament, were activated when the term given by the Justice to apply the minimum of 25% of Castilian was about to expire.

The new regulations supposed, according to the Catalan TSJ, supposed "the legal impossibility" of executing the sentence on the Castilian, reason why it agreed to suspend the term for the forced execution.

The Catalan court considered that the law on the use of languages ​​entered "in contradiction with the constitutional foundation that determined the ruling of the sentence" that imposed a minimum of Castilian.

Since the basis for this obligation was in the Constitution, the legal reform could be unconstitutional.

"Having verified the incompatibility of the judgment in the execution process with the new legal framework defined by the enacted legal norms; and given that the judgment takes its footing in constitutional jurisprudence, the first question that arises is the adjustment of the new legal framework to the Constitution in the terms in which it has been interpreted," explained the TSJ.

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For now, the new regulations have served to save the Generalitat time to continue without applying the minimum set by the Justice for Castilian.

In fact, the Catalan Government supported the presentation of the question of unconstitutionality, as did the Prosecutor's Office.

The magistrate who will be in charge of drafting the decision of the TC will be

Enrique Arnaldo

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The court had already admitted the unconstitutionality appeals of Vox and PP against the new law, to which are now added the doubts raised by the highest judicial authority in Catalonia.

The foreseeable decision of the TC to admit the question of unconstitutionality for processing comes the day after the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament agreed to send a mission to Catalonia to verify the possible discrimination of the Spanish language in the classrooms and the non-application of the rulings on the matter.

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