An example of the media silencing of what the Galician PP has been doing

A campaign against Spanish is news if it is done in Catalonia but not if it is done in Galicia

EspGal 1·08·2025 · 18:48 0

For years I have been pointing out that the exclusion of Spanish in Galicia has been the subject of silencing in many media.

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Perhaps some people thought that this complaint was a bit of paranoia on my part, but today I am going to give you a clear example of the extent to which a double standard is applied to what the Popular Party is doing in Galicia with its policy to marginalize the Spanish language, compared to similar policies developed by other parties in other regions of Spain.

Today, the digital newspaper Voz Pópuli states: "Illa promotes not speaking in Castilian for 21 days in different Catalan cities". This medium points out that the socialists of the PSC, a party that has been openly Hispanophobic for years, are taking on a campaign already promoted by the previous regional government of the ERC separatists. This Wednesday, La Gaceta also reported on this campaign.

In March 2023, Libertad Digital, El Debate, Abc and La Razón also reported on this campaign against Spanish in Catalonia when it was promoted by several municipalities in the province of Gerona that are governed by separatist parties.

Of all the media cited, only La Gaceta published a news item in 2023 indicating that in Galicia the regional government, in the hands of the Popular Party, is carrying out the same campaign among underage students, something that I have been denouncing in Contando Estrelas for years.

Of the other media cited, only Abc mentioned the Galician campaign, but at the end of its news story about the Catalan campaign, that is, without devoting to the Xunta's campaign the attention that it did pay to the Catalan separatist campaign. Furthermore, Libertad Digital mentioned the Galician campaign but in passing and in a news item about Vox, speaking of the complaints that this party has been making in Galicia against the PP's policy of marginalisation of Spanish.

Let us remember that Vox denounced this Galician campaign in January 2023, a complaint that was taken to the Congress of Deputies. However, and as is usual every time this exclusion of Spanish in Galicia is criticized, no media outlet published a news item about this complaint from Vox (I did comment on it here).

This is how the PP's policy is hidden by marginalizing Spanish in Galicia, making people believe that this party would never be capable of doing the same as the separatists in Catalonia, when in reality they are already developing the same type of campaigns against Spanish.

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Photo: Partido Popular. Alfonso Rueda, president of the Galician government, together with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, national president of the Popular Party, at a PP rally in Ferrol on May 18, 2023.

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