Overview
- The motion to take the bill into consideration passed 174–170 with PSOE, Junts and Coalición Canaria backing nationalist and regional sponsors.
- The proposal, registered by Gabriel Rufián with 23 co-signatories from ERC, EH Bildu, PNV, BNG, Comuns, Compromís and Més per Mallorca, would permit Catalan, Basque and Galician before all state bodies, including the judiciary.
- It would make knowledge of the relevant co-official language a requirement for public-sector posts in those territories and add a linguistic criterion to public procurement.
- The draft reaches education, product labelling, traffic signage, RTVE programming and publication of laws and royal decrees in the BOE in all co-official languages.
- Debate featured multilingual speeches and firm resistance from PP and Vox, while PSOE’s Marc Lamuà argued the measure does not remove rights from Spanish-speakers.