{"id":53142,"date":"2023-09-21T18:45:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53142"},"modified":"2025-09-21T00:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:58:23","slug":"the-pp-rejects-the-use-of-regional-languages-in-congress-but-will-maintain-them-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/21\/the-pp-rejects-the-use-of-regional-languages-in-congress-but-will-maintain-them-in-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"The PP rejects the use of regional languages in Congress but will maintain them in the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saying one thing and doing the opposite has already become a habit on the part of the leadership and representatives of the Popular Party.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/19\/la-patada-de-la-izquierda-al-espanol-el-gran-gesto-de-vox-y-la-ridicula-incoherencia-del-pp\/\">La patada de la izquierda al espa\u00f1ol, el gran gesto de Vox y la rid\u00edcula incoherencia del PP<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/20\/la-izquierda-pretende-degradar-el-espanol-como-lengua-comun-y-el-pais-lo-confirma\/\">La izquierda pretende degradar el espa\u00f1ol como lengua com\u00fan y El Pa\u00eds lo confirma<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Vox supports the PP amendments but the PP does not support Vox's amendment<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This morning, <strong>the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies has approved the modification of its regulations to allow the use of regional languages<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/app.congreso.es\/AudiovisualCongreso\/audiovisualEmisionSemiDirecto?codOrgano=400&codSesion=003&idLegislaturaElegida=15&fechaSesion=21\/09\/2023\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">you can see the video of the debate here<\/a>), in one more cession of the PSOE to the separatist parties to obtain their support for the re-election of Pedro S\u00e1nchez. The PP has taken advantage of the debate to mark distances with Vox. Thus, <strong>although the Vox deputies supported the amendments presented by the PP, the PP did not support the entire amendment presented by Vox<\/strong>, opting for abstention (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congreso.es\/es\/busqueda-de-iniciativas?p_p_id=iniciativas&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_iniciativas_mode=mostrarDetalle&_iniciativas_legislatura=XV&_iniciativas_id=410\/000001\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\" _blank\">you can see the results of the different votes here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><big>Vox asked for the support of the PP to end translations in the Senate<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The attitude of the PP went beyond disloyalty to Vox, after this party announced its support for the investiture of Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vox_es\/status\/1704125038134477161\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yesterday Santiago Abascal announced<\/a> that <strong>Vox will present an initiative to restore Spanish as a common language in the Senate:<\/strong><em>\"Today in Congress the coup majority has been imposed by the minimum, but it is a minority in the Senate. <strong>We hope that the PP supports the initiative<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this morning's debate in Congress, the parliamentary spokesperson for Vox, <strong>Pepa Mill\u00e1n, criticized the PP for preventing the schooling of children in Spanish in Galicia and announced the aforementioned initiative of her party:<\/strong> <em>\"Now you have an opportunity to rectify that course in the Senate,\"<\/em> she said, looking at the PP deputies. While she was saying it, the president of the PP, Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o, lowered his head:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vox pide al PP que el espa\u00f1ol vuelva a ser lengua com\u00fan en el Senado\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KbcCoF8KH9s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><big>The PP defends for the Senate what it rejects in Congress<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The response of the Popular Party has not been long in coming. After Pepa Mill\u00e1n, the PP deputy Borja S\u00e9mper took the floor, who <strong>after making a defense of Spanish as a common language, renounced that defense with regard to the Senate:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"The Spanish Parliament already allows the use of co-official regional languages. In this Congress, without going any further, naturally, in references, quotes, phrases or short self-translated paragraphs, and that has never been a problem. <strong>In the Senate, the regulation was reformed<\/strong> so that in assessed cases and in its consideration of its status as a chamber of territorial representation, the official regional languages would have a role, and <strong>it is reasonable that this should be the case.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"El PP defiende el uso de las lenguas regionales en el Senado\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4qaBxe1YR_0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>S\u00e9mper's statement is, without citing it, a negative response to Vox's initiative<\/strong> to put an end to the nonsense of the translators in the Senate, the same nonsense that the PP voted against today in Congress. <strong>Once again, the PP does one thing and the opposite. It is the distinctive mark of that party.<\/strong> We will see how many media related to the PP report on it.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gppopular\/53198714863\/in\/dateposted\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Partido Popular<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saying one thing and doing the opposite has already become a habit on the part of the leadership and representatives of the Popular Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[6742,11282,641,19922,2169,11992,7535],"class_list":["post-53142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-borja-semper","tag-congress-of-deputies-of-spain","tag-partido-popular","tag-pepa-millan","tag-santiago-abascal-conde","tag-senate-of-spain","tag-vox"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 08:43:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}