The Youth Council of the Balearic Islands criticizes the words of Gabriel Le Senne (VOX) against the Catalan language
Last March 1, the institutional event of Balearic Islands Day was held in Parliament, with the presence of representatives from all areas of Balearic society. The president of the chamber, Gabriel Le Senne, took the opportunity to make a speech that the Youth Council of the Balearic Islands (CJIB) has described as “totally misguided, clearly partisan and far from institutional neutrality and solemnity that required said act”.
The CJIB denounces that Le Senne used youth as a pretext to attack the Catalan language, “relating the decline among young people of their own language to its alleged political imposition, all the while stating that ‘se puede llevar el caballo al río pero don’t force him to drink’».
The CJIB regrets that the only reference to the youth is to attack their own language
The Youth Council of the Balearic Islands, which attended the event, condemns these statements and considers it necessary to state that:
– “We are deeply saddened that the only allusion to youth that the president has seen fit to make is to attack his own language, when he has also talked about housing, labor difficulties or the socio-economic reality. The Youth Yearbook, in which he wants to base his arguments, shows the difficulties in all these areas and we invite him to make a less tendentious reading of his articles.
– We reiterate that the language immersion model is the best guarantee of a correct social integration of young people and everyone who comes to live in the Islands and that normal coexistence between Spanish and Catalan must continue to be promoted as recognized the Statute, and also various resolutions of the CJIB. It is incoherent that the president has positively valued the linguistic diversity of this land when he attacks the framework that protects this diversity and his party carries out actions contrary to the normalization of its own language. Nor was it appropriate to do so after the reading of article 4 of the Statute by a student, or to remember the figure of Jeroni Albertí».
