While the 2025 regional budgets are still pending and in the midst of a bitter struggle between PP and Vox to approve the accounts of Marga Prohens’ government for 2025, Vox surprises everyone by giving up its star project, the Office of Linguistic Freedom , an entity which would be endowed with 750,000 euros and that it should operate under the direct control of Santiago Abascal’s party to protect the use of Spanish in the archipelago “after forty years of imposition of Catalan”.
Paralyzed since the summer when Santiago Abascal withdrew his parliamentary support for the PP government, it is confirmed that the “Spanish Office” will not have a budget in 2025 and has no signs of starting up. A month ago, the PP had already canceled its approval in the Balearic Parliament, completely dissociating itself from this commitment acquired in the agreement of the nomination is now broken unilaterally by the management of Vox.
And even though everything indicated that the Linguistics Office was going to be Vox’s workhorse in giving its approval to budgets – and its votes – that was not the case. The training excludes requesting a specific budget for this entity and, in exchange, offers the popular people the launch of a Anti-occupation office – similar to that set up by Palma City Hall – with a budget of 250,000 euros.
This was explained today by the spokesperson for Vox in the Balearic Parliament, Manuela Cañadas, who in recent days has shown a certain affinity with the regional leader, Marga Prohenssuggesting that, even if negotiations continue, there could be an agreement between the two parties to move forward on the popular leader’s second budgets.
Cañadas confirms that his training does not require specific allocation for the Linguistic Freedom Office, although he hopes that the Balearic Government disseminate and inform families through the media that there is the right to free choice of language , another Vox workhorse. With this petition, Vox intends to fight against the misinformation that occurred during this first phase of implementation of the free choice of languagewith the addition of the boycott of numerous educational centers which have supplanted the choice of parents to maintain linguistic immersion.
However, the change in strategy of Vox Baleares, by changing the language of occupation, reopens the debate. deep crisis within the party. A crisis which has already lasted since the start of the legislature and which has wreaked havoc with the departure of two deputies, Xisco Cardona and Agustín Buades, – out of the eight obtained in the elections – in just one year.
The critical sector of Voxwhich keeps the pulse of the national leadership and is led by Idoia Ribas and Sergio Rodríguez, does not share the announcement even if he has not spoken at the moment, the non-registered deputy and former member of Vox Agustín Buades , who left the party in September against Abascal’s decision to withdraw his parliamentary support for the executive of Marga Prohens, he openly criticizes his former party for having “betrayed the legislative power by betraying the electoral promises made to voters”.
In a statement, Buades assures that the public campaign on the choice of language “is a useless smokescreen using public money to cover up the issue” and wonders if it has already been accepted. “the theme of menas” to the Consell Insular de Mallorca – which has skills in the reception of minors in custody – “which now prevents us from returning to the pact signed in July 2023 in the Balearic Government”. Buades asks to “return to the pact signed at the start of the legislature”.
