Overview

• City councillors approved adhesion 24–17, with PSC, ERC and Barcelona en Comú voting in favor and PP, Vox and Junts opposed.
• The pact targets roughly 600,000 new Catalan speakers by 2030 with €255 million budgeted for 2025 and at least €200 million each year thereafter.
• Supporters highlighted cohesion and local leadership, as Mayor Jaume Collboni endorsed the push and BComú called for concrete planning and budgets.
• Opponents set out divergent objections, with Junts deeming the pact insufficient and PP and Vox describing it as nationalist or coercive.
• The vote comes as language policy faces legal pressure following a TSJC ruling against parts of a school decree that President Salvador Illa has vowed to appeal, with surveys showing only about 36% habitual use in Barcelona and under one third across Catalonia.