now the Office of Linguistic Rights

New blow against the Catalan language. He Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Country (TSJCV) has declared null various items of the decree of the Valencian Generalitat on the creation and operation of the Office of Linguistic Rights.

The magistrates have partially upheld the appeal against the decree presented by the Association for the defense of Spanish in the Valencian Community, who argued that the text was intended to defend “only” the rights of Catalan-speakers to express themselves in Valencian and left “Spanish-speaking” homeless. The sentence declares several points of the decree void to consider, among other aspects, that they exceed the advisory function and come to regulate a previous administrative activity.

The Fourth Section of the Administrative Court of the TSJCV has declared articles 4 null (first section and second section regarding complaints and suggestions), 5, 6.1 and 2, 7, 8 and 9 (in relation to claims and suggestions), 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 16 (again, in relation to claims and suggestions).

The resolution of the magistrates argues that these contested points “they break the constitutional mandate of submission of public powers to the principles of legal certainty, responsibility and interdiction of arbitrariness. “In the opinion of the Chamber, the articles of the Valencian Generalitat generate” administrative acts “with legal effects and without guarantees for their recipients.

However, the judgment does not amend the rest of the articles, which it considers to be in accordance with the law, and does not question the very existence of the Office, an entity that “falls within the scope of the administration’s organization.” The sentence can still be appealed to the Supreme Court.

Valencian School Reactions and Cultural Action

In a quick reaction, the entities Valencian School and Cultural Action of the Valencià Country They have supported the Council’s Office for Language Rights. In a joint statement, the two entities have denounced that the sentence “protects linguistic rights against any linguistic aggression.” The two entities appeal to “unity” in the other entities, unions and parties that work for the language and ask the Council for a “forceful” response.

@escolatv and @AccioCulturalPV we jointly pronounce before a new TSCV ruling that declares several articles of the decree creating the Office of Linguistic Rights null and void:https://t.co/4V9GTs4NSY

– Valencian School (@escolatv) June 26, 2020

Before the judgments of the TSJ of the Valencià Country, the entities affirm that there is a “de facto persecution of any norm that protects Valencian as an official language.” If not, they continue, “it cannot be understood that all of the Botanical normalization decrees have been systematically totally or partially overturned by the same section IV”.

One after another

Less than two weeks ago, the Spanish Supreme Court already upheld the rejection that the administration of the Valencià Country continued to use the Valencian language as a priority and forced that institutional communications between the Valencià Country, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands be made in Spanish, prohibiting in this way Catalan.