After having yielded and agreed with ERC, Junts and the commons that Spanish is not a "learning language" in Catalonia, the PSC now conditions its support for the future decree that will develop the new law on official languages ​​to the Generalitat complying with the minimum of 25% Spanish in the classrooms set by the Justice. This was stated this Thursday by the first secretary of the Catalan Socialists, Salvador Illa, after the storm unleashed by the alignment of his party with the linguistic front in favor of the monolingualism of independentists and commoners.

"We have not guaranteed our support, we want to see the literalness and if any reference or statement is spoken or made that may lead to a breach of judicial decisions, we will not give our support," Illa detailed this Thursday in an interview on the Ser Catalunya chain, in which he also commented that he would like there to be no judicial resolution regarding the use of languages ​​in the classroom.

The PSC has spent years trying to balance its position regarding the language immersion system. After being one of its driving parties, at the beginning of the 1980s, the formation recently began to modulate its position, stating that it should be reformulated.

This timid turn, however, had a limit, that of being included in the same front as Vox, Cs and PP. The squaring of the circle seemed to arrive on March 24, when independentists and commoners agreed with the PSC on a text in which, despite not essentially modifying the current system, it did define Spanish as a "language of learning", it is In other words, beyond being taught as a subject, Spanish was also used to teach other subjects.

The proposal, in fact, elevated to law what the courts had already established, a legal recognition of Spanish that even the defenders of bilingualism saw as progress. That is, that in addition to the subject of Spanish, other core material was taught in this language, until reaching 25% of the total. The pact lasted just a few hours, which took the most extreme sectors of the independence movement to force the resignation of Junts, considering that this recognition endangered the Catalan.

It is in this context that, for the sake of recovering linguistic "unity", the PSC has compromised, and Spanish, in the new proposal that Parliament is preparing to approve, has gone from being the language of "teaching" to being "language curricular and educational. For the socialists, there is no difference and, in any case, the vehicularity of Castilian is recognised, in their opinion.

Of course, it is a convoluted and ambiguous wording that allows both the independence movement to say now that immersion is shielded with 100% of the subjects in Catalan -despite the opposition of the CUP and the most radical entities in linguistic matters-, as well as the PSC ensure that "the essential" of the document presented on March 24 by the four formations is maintained, and therefore that Castilian is recognized.

The PSC has made an "extraordinary effort on the subject," assured Illa, who described it as something important because of its symbolism and because of coexistence in Catalonia. Despite this, and later compromising, the leader of the PSC criticized that the first document was revised after signing it, assuring that the political formations are "too dependent" on the opinion of associations and entities to make decisions, alluding to the groups independentists.

When the law on official languages ​​is approved in the Autonomous Chamber, after hearing the opinion of the Council of Statutory Guarantees (CGE), which issues non-binding opinions on the fit of the regulations with the Constitution and the Statute, basically, and will do so At the request of Vox, Cs and PP, who yesterday presented the request for the opinion, the Catalan Government will approve a decree-law developing the norm.

The movement of the three constitutionalist parties will disturb the initial idea of ​​the Government, the PSC and the commons, who were counting on approving the law today and, after the decree-law also for this Friday, having a response ready for the TSJC before the end of the term to comply with the 25% forcible execution order. The deadline is Tuesday.