The TSJC orders the execution of the sentence that cut the decree to shield Catalan in classrooms
The decision is not final and the decree was suspended only a month after approving it
BarcelonaNew blow from justice to Catalan in schools. This Monday, the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has ordered the execution of the sentence it issued last September, in which it annulled a dozen articles from the decree to shield Catalan in schools. A decree that was approved by Pere Aragonès' government and only a month later was suspended by the courts; therefore, it was no longer being applied in schools.
The court made the decision by upholding the request that had been presented by the Assemblea per una Escola Bilingüe de Catalunya (AEB), in which it requested that the sentence be executed, despite the fact that various parties such as Plataforma per la Llengua or the Generalitat government itself announced that they would file an appeal.
Catalan and Aranese as the habitual language
In this way, the TSJC orders to make effective the total or partial annulment of eleven articles that established Catalan and Aranese as normally vehicular and learning languages and as usual languages in teaching and administrative activity, in relations with families, in teaching materials and evaluations.
Despite the resolution made public this Monday, legal sources consulted by ARA assure that in practical terms the TSJC's decision "changes nothing". They detail that before the September ruling there were precautionary measures that suspended the entire decree and that the ruling of last September "only annulled part of the decree". Therefore, after the ruling, Plataforma per la Llengua asked to lift the precautionary measures in order to apply the part of the decree that was not suspended. But the same sources assure that at this point no move has been made in this regard, so the decree had not yet been applied. Therefore, they question that the TSJC forces the execution of the ruling without there having been any breach: "It makes no sense to ask for an execution when the ruling is not being breached," they insist.
