'Génova' believes that the PSOE is not seeking to promote languages ​​but to "promote a candidate" and advance in the "plurinational Spain"

MADRID, Sep 19.

The People's Party has already advanced this Tuesday, just one week before the investiture debate of their party's leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that "in principle" they will not use the earpieces in the Plenary of the Congress, according to sources from the national leadership of the party.

The Plenary of the Congress has given the green light this Tuesday to the processing of the reform of the Regulations of the Chamber to allow the use of co-official languages ​​not only in parliamentary interventions but also in the presentation of initiatives, and this was done with the votes against from the PP, Vox and Union of the Navarrese People (UPN), after the first multilingual plenary session in the history of Spanish parliamentarism.

In Tuesday's session, no PP deputy has used the headphones that translate Catalan, Basque and Galician into Spanish, although many of them - including Feijóo - have looked at the screens placed in the hemicycle at some points and where they could read the speeches of the speakers in Spanish.

And Feijóo and the Popular Group will be able to do the same next week to follow the interventions of the deputies who, during the investiture debate scheduled for September 26 and 27, will use the co-official languages ​​from the speaker's podium.

"We are not going to use the earpiece. In principle, we are not going to use it," sources from the PP have indicated regarding that investiture debate, in which we will not see that image of the 'popular' bench using the headphones.

The 'popular' party does not consider it a "good image for Spanish parliamentarism" that in the Congress they are present with earpieces" when there is a common language with which everyone understands each other. "This goes against what is common and fractures the common," the same sources added.

Although the PP deputies have not used the headphones today, their spokesperson in the language debate, Basque Borja Sémper, has inserted some passages in Basque during his speech, which has provoked some criticism from other parties because this Monday he had categorically stated that the PP would not use the co-official languages ​​in the Plenary to not "make a fool of themselves." From the PNV, Aitor Esteban, has responded to Sémper that he has "made a fool of himself" using Basque in the Lower House to argue that "there is no need to speak Basque."

Shortly after, Sémper explained that with his "minimally bilingual" intervention he wanted to reflect what could already be done in the Congress until now. "And you also know it," he snapped at the other groups, to add that in the PP they will not do "strange things" or "foolishness" or participate in this "theater."

Sources from the PP leadership consider that what has happened with the co-official languages ​​is "an excuse." "It is not about promoting languages ​​but about promoting a candidate," they stressed, adding that if it were to promote languages, the PP would be in favor.

The 'popular' party has stated that what is sought is for Spanish to "cease to be the common language". "This is not about languages ​​but about advancing towards plurinational Spain," sources from Feijóo's team added.