National Article

"El PSOE abre la puerta a que se utilicen las lenguas cooficiales en el Senado"

The article from La Razon on April 22nd says that on the 28th of April, a Senate meeting will debate the taking into consideration a proposal that was presented by 34 senators in order to spread the use of co-official languages in the upper house. This article specifically points to the fact that the PSOE socialist group announced that it voted in favor of the proposition, so the only group who will propose the idea is the PP. This all stems from a request from the nationalist parties. It will be studied in order to decide “where the use of autonomous languages would be able to be expanded and for what type of initiatives.” It is thought that the Socialist party is in the Senate and not in the Congress where such a debate should take place. The Socialist party is emphasizing that this controversial proposal needs the maximum possible consensus of political forces in order to pass. In my mind this is an interesting article that the popular party would oppose such a proposition, while Socialists would be the ones to back it. Usually when I think of a socialist, I think of more repression and I would have thought that the popular party in power would want to gain more recognition from the Spanish people. Such a proposal would gain popularity from regional groups like Catalans, and Basques who have a different language than Spanish. It would allow these people to feel more closely tied to their heritage and allow them to feel less undermined in their culture. I am wondering if it would be confusing to start introducing co-official languages to the Spanish nation; however it would make for more diversity, and a more unique place. Furthermore, so many people speak different languages like Catalan, Basque, Galician, etc. that it may even benefit the nation and those in power to allow co-official languages. The image shown above is taken from La Razon's website and shows a picture of the senate. Clearly I am unsure if this is the Senate in debate over the topic, but this was the most fitting picture for the article.