The president of Aragon or the hatred of Catalan made pact
The incompatibility between the Spanish national project and the Catalan one is a fact that we are not discovering now. It has exceptions, good intentions, cultured and sensitive people, but it is a structural political fact that has its transposition in the legal system. For practical purposes, we are humiliable foreigners who pay taxes in this state.
Today the day breathes the happiness of a festival, of a festival that has a unique particularity: it is simultaneously a national festival and a universal festival. And, frankly, as the world is (and with the busy day that awaits us), with this we would have enough to analyze this April 23rd, which today could have a very simple title: Long live Saint George.But current events are what they are, imperative and capricious, to the point that today it brings us the other side of life. If Sant Jordi is the perfume of a rose and the smell of a new book, the pact between the PP and Vox in Aragon is as if it rained shit and the air had been smeared with the stench of rot.The PP and Vox have agreed in Aragon to demand "freeing Aragon from the imposition of Catalan" to invest Jorge Azcón, from the PP, as president. Yes, as it sounds: "Freeing Aragon from Catalan." There is a section of the agreement titled "Freedom in the face of indoctrination and imposition." The law stating that Aragonese Catalan is a co-official language is being reformed, and the Aragonese Institute of Catalan, which oversees the application of Catalan norms and the social use of the language, is being abolished. Let's see, the PP already invented the name LAPAO to avoid saying Catalan, but now they are not hiding anything and are talking about "freeing Aragon from Catalan," as if one were talking about freeing it from a foreign invasion or a disease, as if it were not the language spoken and that has been spoken for centuries by the Aragonese who live in La Franja.
This has been signed by the PP and Vox, but we will not hear any condemnation from the PSOE, Podemos, Sumar, or any of the left-wing groups that are so supportive of all the just causes in the world, because Spanish progressive mobilization stops precisely where it clashes with Catalan or Catalonia. We already saw this on October 1st. It is true. The incompatibility between the Spanish national project and Catalan is a fact we are not discovering now. It has exceptions, good intentions, cultured and sensitive people, but it is a structural political fact that has its transposition into the legal system. For all practical purposes, we are humiliating foreigners who pay taxes in this state.
And the Government? What will the Government say? Well, not much. Today at ARA we explain a frightening news story. The Department of Health has not imposed any fines for not attending patients in Catalan. User complaints in healthcare for not being attended in Catalan continue to grow, but sanctions for this reason remain stagnant. Zero. The reason is that Health does not have the competence to sanction hospitals, health centers, or doctors. And the Department of Linguistic Policy admits that there has never been specific regulation allowing sanctions for this reason. It is scandalous. And meanwhile, today language and books will vibrate in the street.Good morning.
