The PP parliamentary group today mistakenly approved a proposal from Vox that eliminates Catalan as a requirement in the public service, according to which Spanish is also the vehicular language in education and not only Catalan as imposed the previous government of Francine Armengol, and moreover, allow construction in natural areas of special interest (ANEI) in Formentera and Ibiza.
During this Tuesday’s plenary session, the group popular voted in error in favor of the amendments of those of Santiago Abascal At administrative simplification law which I was going to vote against, so they decided to do it.
When they realized the mistake, the popular They requested a recess, but it was not granted because the vote had already ended. The deputy spokesperson of the PP, Marga Duran, asked to repeat the vote on this package of amendments, but it was Vox which refused to do so.
In fact, the parliamentary spokesperson for Vox, Manuela Canadassaid he was satisfied with the result of the vote. From that moment, and in statements to the media after the plenary session, the Vice-President of the Government, Anthony Costaannounced thate the same day of the publication of the simplification law in the Official Bulletin of the Balearic Islands (BOIB), the Executive will approve a decree-law so that these amendments do not come into force.
After the plenary session, the PSOE, Més por Mallorca, Més por Menorca and Podemos demanded an urgent meeting with the President of the Government, Marga Prohensto deal with a situation they described as “unprecedented”.
The refusal of the Prohens government to eliminate the Catalan condition for access to public employment is obvious even if, in principle, the agreement with Vox implied the removal of this condition for access to a civil servant position. This measure was only made effective in terms of access to health in a context of lack of health professionals.
In the rest of the Public Administration, the Government’s position is very clear: citizens have the right to address the Administration in one of the two official languages and the right to be served in one of the two official languages, as recognized by Prohens. herself in an interview with this digital. But nothing more.
Although the leader of the Balearic PP herself promised to “look on a case-by-case basis”, she also warned in the same interview that “Civil servants must ensure attention in their own language of this community”
Modifications were also approved today to authorize works, installations and activities that, due to their nature, cannot have another location on the land included in the protective easement area, as well as several modifications to the education law.
So, The Government will surely approve two decree-lawsone to include changes on legalization and construction in risk areas that have not been introduced in the text, already approved, and another so that the Vox amendments do not come into force.
On this issue, Costa himself, also Minister of Economy, Finance and Innovation, regretted that an agreement had not been reached with the opposition, adding that the government was ready to give in. “We have the feeling that they did not have the will to agree from the first moment,” he stressed.
Opposition spokespersons called the error an “administrative disaster” and called on Prime Minister Marga Prohens to convene a meeting on Tuesday to “fix this mess” and remedy it “as quickly as possible.”
“We have just eliminated Catalan in the public service, in education and legalized large installations like polo fields, that is to say that all the obsessions that Vox had put in the form of amendments have been approved”, lamented the spokesperson for Més per Minorca. , Joseph Castells.
In this sense, he considered that this error “highlights the risks of Vox” and demonstrates that “it is extremely irresponsible” and that “it is not governed seriously”.
For his part, the spokesperson for Més per Mallorca, Luis Apesteguiaclassified the error as “the biggest legislative disaster” of the community autonomous. “It shows that we are in the hands of not only people who were able to approve predatory rule over the territory, but also shady people who are incapable of taking a vote,” he said.
“We have totally different Balearic Islands due to the atrocities that have just been approved,” said the PSOE spokesperson. Iago Negueruela, who estimated that “the problem comes from the PP” who thanked Vox and did not allow him to redo the vote.
