Why is the conference of presidents a Tower of Babel and not the Senate?

The incoherence of some political parties on the linguistic nonsense in Spain

In Spain, Pedro Sánchez’s government is promoting linguistic nonsense by confusing national and regional languages.

The PP rejects the use of regional languages in Congress but will maintain them in the Senate
The leftist kick against the Spanish, the great gesture of Vox and the incoherence of the PP

Two years ago, the socialists introduced regional languages ​​into Congress, in a concession by Pedro Sánchez to his separatist allies to gain their support for his re-election at the expense of one of the most valuable elements we Spaniards have for our coexistence: a common language, which is Spanish, in which we all understand each other.

After everything we’ve been through, some people should be clear that the separatists don’t use languages ​​to understand each other, but to create division for political purposes. In fact, while they invoke «linguistic rights» to use regional languages ​​in Congress (where only Spanish should be official, which is the official Spanish language of the State according to Article 3 of the Constitution (which states that the other Spanish languages ​​will be official in their autonomous communities), the separatists violate the linguistic rights of Spanish speakers in several regions, especially in Catalonia, by imposing mandatory Catalan immersion in schools and imposing language fines on businesses that display signs in Spanish, something typical of a dictatorship.

It must be said that the left is not the only one to blame for this linguistic nonsense that consists of equating our common language with regional languages. Two years ago, the Popular Party (PP) rejected the use of regional languages ​​in Congress but said it would maintain them in the Senate, where we Spaniards also have to support with our taxes the absurdity of simultaneous translation being used between people who speak Spanish. In fact, in Galicia, the PP has been imposing a language policy very similar to that of Catalan separatism, as I already explained here in April.

Today, at the meeting of the conference of regional presidents, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, of the PP, complained (rightly) about the use of regional languages at a meeting between public officials who have Spanish as their common language. The president of the Junta of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (of the PP), has described the meeting as a «Tower of Babel», with good reason, due to the fact that they are wasting the Spanish people’s money on automatic translation between people who speak Spanish. Curiously, the president of the Galician government, Alfonso Rueda (of the PP), began his speech in Galician, contributing to the confusion that the left creates between the national language and the regional languages.

The logical question is the one I put in the title of this article: Why is the conference of presidents a Tower of Babel but not the Senate? Is it simply because in the first case the PP opposes it and in the second it approves it? If in Spain we have reached this level of irrationality with languages, it is not only because of the separatists and the left, who certainly bear enormous responsibility for this complete absurdity, but also because of the PP, which has given in on this matter to the theses of the left and the separatists, just as it has done on other issues. As long as the PP continues to tolerate these absurdities in the Senate and encourage them in Galicia, with what moral authority will it criticize them elsewhere?

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Image: «The Tower of Babel», painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1526-1569).