The PSM urges all senators Balearics to support the initiative to use the Catalan in the Senate.
In a press conference, accompanied by Secretary General of the PSM, Biel Barcelo, Sampol explained that the initiative, promoted by the senators with BNG and ERC, with the support of the PNV, CIU, PSC, ICV and CC so as Balearic progressive senators, is signed by a total of 34 senators. The PSOE has announced that it voted in favor of taking into consideration of the initiative, although during the prosecution tried to 'buy down' the content, Sampol recalled, while the PP has announced to vote against.
In this context, the nationalist urge the PP to give a free vote to the Popular Party senators and stop using the language as a "weapon of electoral confrontation", stressing that representatives of the PP have said privately that they agree with the initiative.
"Senators of territories with their own language must be faithful to his people and defend their language," impacted Sampol, who described the current situation of "democratic deficit of the Spanish state" From the point of view of equality of citizens before the law. "There should be languages first and second" spit.
For its part, Barcelo advocate the Senate to become a "true chamber of territorial representation, what would happen necessarily by the possible use of different languages normally the state."
The initiative is a modification of the fourth additional provision of the Senate rules to cover "the normal oral and written in all the ordinary activities of the Chamber of any of the languages have official status in some Autonomous Communities." It also includes a transitional provision for the entry into force is gradual.