Orriols invites the new PSC councilor of Ripoll to sign up for a Catalan course

Barcelona"Out of institutional respect, I remind you that the natural language is Catalan and, if you do not know it, I inform you that there are places available at the adult school. If you wish, I can give you an enrollment form." In this way, the mayor of Ripoll, Sílvia Orriols, reprimanded the new councilor of the PSC, Jorge Iglesias, who was debuting in the plenary session yesterday, for making his speech in Spanish. In a subsequent intervention, Morillo responded that he would do "the possible to learn Catalan", but asked the leader of Aliança Catalana that she "do the possible to carry out social actions". It all began when Iglesias, a retiree born in Montevideo and linked to the Ripollès region, intervened in the swearing-in and assured that he would carry out his activity "with the corresponding loyalty". The other socialist councilor, Paco Morillo, a resident of Ripoll, did not want to intervene in his debut as a councilor.

Amidst the controversy, the Minister of Linguistic Policy of the Generalitat, Francesc Xavier Vila, has defended the scolding from the Ripoll leader. "I think it's a mistake, it would have been a good moment to show that they too can make an effort to speak a language that until now they have not spoken perhaps out of shame or because they do not feel secure, but it was necessary that they also showed that they were joining the use of the Catalan language," he concluded in an interview with SER Catalunya this Wednesday.

have allowed the approval of the budgets with their abstentionThe two new socialist councillors made their debut yesterday in the plenary session after the PSC leadership forced the resignation of their predecessors, Enric Pérez and Anna-Belén Avilés, for having allowed the approval of the budgets with their abstention. No member of the candidacy wanted to replace them in disagreement with the leadership's decision, and the leadership created a caretaker committee. A few weeks later, the leadership announced that Paco Morillo and Jorge Iglesias would be the new councillors of Ripoll.