Overview

• Esas Latinas staged a satirical sketch on July 8 at the Centre Cultural La Model that portrayed mandatory Catalan requirements as discriminatory
• The performance depicted migrants being refused medical and administrative services for not speaking Catalan, concluding with a migrant barred from employment despite earning a C2 certificate
• Maria Eugènia Gay publicly apologized on July 11, stating that the council had not reviewed the sketch’s content before the Discrimination Observatory event
• Junts per Barcelona’s Jordi Martí and ERC spokesperson Jordi Castellana demanded political resignations as well as formal explanations from the municipal government
• Òmnium Cultural and Plataforma per la Llengua condemned the council for hosting a performance they said stigmatized Catalan speakers, arguing it undermined efforts to promote the language