Overview
- The PSOE voted to admit the nationalist-backed proposal to formal processing alongside support from Junts, Coalición Canaria, ERC, EH Bildu, PNV, BNG, Comuns, Compromís and Més.
- The draft seeks to ensure citizens can use Catalan, Basque or Galician before any State body, including courts, with the same legal validity as Spanish.
- The text proposes language knowledge requirements for public jobs in affected territories, including Justice personnel, and introduces a linguistic criterion in public procurement.
- Other measures include multilingual State platforms, co-official languages as vehicular in education, optional labeling and road signage in those languages, RTVE content obligations and BOE publication of laws in all co-official languages.
- PP and Vox opposed the initiative on constitutional and cohesion grounds, while the PSOE argued it does not strip rights from Spanish speakers, and the bill’s authors prepare amendments for the next stage.