Junts asks RTVE to intervene in Catalan in the debate for the European elections

Junts has requested by letter to the management of Spanish Radio Television (RTVE) to be able to intervene in Catalan in the debate of candidates for the 9-J elections, that the public channel will celebrate on June 6. In the letter, the group defends that the proposal seeks to “guarantee” that the Catalan language is on “equal conditions” with Spanish and has “the status it deserves” on state public television. In addition, they defend that the objective of the petition is to “highlight” the linguistic and cultural diversity of the State. In this sense, They also demand that Basque and Galician speakers be present during the debate.

The letter was signed by the Junts campaign director and number 3 on the list, Aleix Sarri, who will attend the debate on behalf of the head of the list, Toni Comín. Carles Puigdemont’s party has defended in the campaign for the European elections that it will continue fighting so that Catalonia has its own voice and has insisted in the need to make way for the officialization of Catalan. The head of the list Toni Comín asked Pedro Sánchez last week to get personally involved in this work in Brussels.

Comín has stood as the representative of the defense of Catalan in the EU Institutions, and not only in Catalonia but also in the Balearic Islands and in Valencia. The candidate made a nod in the campaign to the Mediterranean Islands, alluding that “the official use of Catalan also suffers.” “We will not leave you alone in your battle to confront the attempt by Vox and PP to push back Catalan in your institutions,” he said.

This weekend Comín has been campaigning in the “Valencian Country” to win voters by defending the language. “We will not leave you alone when the Valencian government of PP and Vox seeks to corner Catalan. It is an anomaly that Catalan is the only European language that is not official. And since it is an anomaly, it will be resolved. We will win thanks to Libres x Europa Junts +”, he expressed. Both Comín and Puigdemont and also ERC have redoubled their pressure on the PSOE in the campaign for the use of Catalanmarking even more distance in Sánchez’s game of alliances in the Congress of Deputies.