The use of Catalan, Galician and Basque in the Congress of Deputies It is already a reality and is about to become a right expressly included in the Regulation. This Tuesday, the Lower House approved the taking into consideration of the express regulatory reform that will shield the use of co-official languages along with Spanish in all parliamentary activity, and he did so with the votes in favor of the majority with which Pedro Sanchez aspires to be re-elected President of the Government in the coming weeks: the one made up of PSOE, Sumar, ERC, Junts, PNV, EH Bildu and BNG.
PP and Vox took a position against this reform, and the latter, in fact, left the plenary session angrily on two occasions in what was one of the great anecdotes of a session that was expected to be more hectic than it ended up being. With the translation system working perfectly – although few honorable Members made use of it, except when PNV and EH Bildu intervened in Basque – the session only had to stop briefly when the Vox deputies tried to interrupt the parliamentarian of the Vox in his speech. PSOE José Ramón Gómez Besteiro.
When the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, prevented them from doing so, the 33 Vox parliamentarians decided to leave, leaving the headphones in the empty seat of President Pedro Sánchez, traveling to New York to attend several UN meetings. And it was not the only rudeness of the formation, who left the chamber again —among loud fussing from several of his deputies— after having returned when the PP spokesperson, Borja Sémper, uttered a few phrases in Basque that he later translated almost verbatim into Spanish.
Beyond these two episodes, however, the session passed normally, and the tone was not even close to that of the harshest plenary sessions of the last legislature, when requests for silence were frequent in the face of murmurs and interruptions to the speaker. Now, as the groups proposing the reform have decided to use all legal avenues to speed up its approval as much as possible, the remaining procedure is very fast: This Wednesday amendments to the reform of the regulations can be presented and this Thursday the Plenary Session of Congress will be reconvened to vote on both these proposed changes and the text as a whole.
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