Overview
- The Partido Popular has added to its election program a promise to amend the Reglamento of the Congreso de los Diputados so that castellano is the common working language in parliamentary debates.
- The party says the change would reverse a 2023 reform that let deputies speak in co‑official languages and that the Senate would keep its existing bilingual practice as the chamber of territorial representation.
- The program also guarantees the constitutional right to receive instruction in Spanish at all stages nationwide and says bilingual teaching in places like Catalonia will follow court rulings.
- The proposal is bundled with wider procedural reforms that would limit extensions for amendment deadlines, bar unrelated amendments, set maximum processing times and require ministers to appear when summoned.
- Coverage of the plan varies: some outlets report the campaign framing and claims about the five‑million‑euro cost of simultaneous‑translation earpieces, while an internal PP spat over those earpieces was publicly closed by party leaders.