{"id":59817,"date":"2025-06-06T17:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=59817"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:34:07","slug":"why-is-the-conference-of-presidents-a-tower-of-babel-and-not-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/06\/06\/why-is-the-conference-of-presidents-a-tower-of-babel-and-not-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the conference of presidents a Tower of Babel and not the Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Spain, Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government is promoting linguistic nonsense by confusing national and regional languages.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"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\/\">The PP rejects the use of regional languages in Congress but will maintain them in the Senate<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/19\/the-leftist-kick-against-the-spanish-the-great-gesture-of-vox-and-the-incoherence-of-the-pp\/\">The leftist kick against the Spanish, the great gesture of Vox and the incoherence of the PP<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/19\/the-leftist-kick-against-the-spanish-the-great-gesture-of-vox-and-the-incoherence-of-the-pp\/\">the socialists introduced regional languages \u200b\u200binto Congress<\/a>, in <strong>a concession by Pedro S\u00e1nchez to his separatist allies to gain their support for his re-election<\/strong> at the expense of one of the most valuable elements we Spaniards have for our coexistence: <strong>a common language, which is Spanish, in which we all understand each other<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After everything we've been through, some people should be clear that <strong>the separatists don't use languages \u200b\u200bto understand each other, but to create division for political purposes<\/strong>. In fact, while they invoke \"linguistic rights\" to use regional languages \u200b\u200bin Congress (where only Spanish should be official, which is the official Spanish language of the State according to Article 3 of the Constitution (which states that the other Spanish languages \u200b\u200bwill be official in their autonomous communities), <strong>the separatists violate the linguistic rights of Spanish speakers in several regions, especially in Catalonia<\/strong>, by imposing mandatory Catalan immersion in schools and imposing language fines on businesses that display signs in Spanish, <strong>something typical of a dictatorship<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It must be said that <strong>the left is not the only one to blame for this linguistic nonsense<\/strong> that consists of equating our common language with regional languages. Two years ago, <a href=\"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\/\">the Popular Party (PP) rejected the use of regional languages \u200b\u200bin Congress but said it would maintain them in the Senate<\/a>, where we Spaniards also have to support with our taxes the absurdity of simultaneous translation being used between people who speak Spanish. In fact, <strong>in Galicia, the PP has been imposing a language policy very similar to that of Catalan separatism<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/04\/11\/the-popular-party-vindicates-spanish-in-the-usa-while-marginalizing-it-in-galicia\/\">as I already explained here in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, at the meeting of the conference of regional presidents, the president of the Community of Madrid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/madrid\/20250606\/ayuso-cumple-amenaza-levanta-conferencia-presidentes-cuando-pradales-habla-vasco_304643.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isabel D\u00edaz Ayuso, of the PP, complained (rightly) about the use of regional languages<\/a> at a meeting between public officials who have Spanish as their common language. The president of the Junta of Castilla y Le\u00f3n, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/castilla-y-leon\/20250606\/manueco-tampoco-traga-torre-babel-conferencia-quita-pinganillo-cuando-habla-pradales_304785.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alfonso Fern\u00e1ndez Ma\u00f1ueco (of the PP), has described the meeting as a \"Tower of Babel\"<\/a>, with good reason, due to the fact that they are wasting the Spanish people's money on automatic translation between people who speak Spanish. Curiously, the president of the Galician government, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/galicia\/20250606\/rueda-empieza-gallego-discurso-conferencia-tenemos-lengua-propia-estamos-orgullosos-ella_304698.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alfonso Rueda (of the PP), began his speech in Galician<\/a>, contributing to the confusion that the left creates between the national language and the regional languages.<\/p>\n<p>The logical question is the one I put in the title of this article: <strong>Why is the conference of presidents a Tower of Babel but not the Senate?<\/strong> Is it simply because in the first case the PP opposes it and in the second it approves it? <strong>If in Spain we have reached this level of irrationality with languages, it is not only because of the separatists and the left,<\/strong> who certainly bear enormous responsibility for this complete absurdity, <strong>but also because of the PP,<\/strong> which has given in on this matter to the theses of the left and the separatists, just as it has done on other issues. <strong>As long as the PP continues to tolerate these absurdities in the Senate and encourage them in Galicia, with what moral authority will it criticize them elsewhere?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Image: \"The Tower of Babel\", painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1526-1569).<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spain, Pedro S\u00e1nchez&#8217;s government is promoting linguistic nonsense by confusing national and regional languages.<\/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":[19536,23212],"tags":[18248,1877,11282,1805,10471,10998,641,693,2721,11992,11462],"class_list":["post-59817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-language","tag-alfonso-fernandez-manueco","tag-alfonso-rueda","tag-congress-of-deputies-of-spain","tag-galicia","tag-isabel-diaz-ayuso","tag-nationalism","tag-partido-popular","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-senate-of-spain","tag-spain"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 02:48:54","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\/59817","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=59817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}