The PP’s response to the censorship of magazines in Catalan in Borriana’s public libraries: “They can be bought”

2023-07-14 09:49:11

“You can buy them”. That was the response given this Thursday by the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, during the seven-day debate on RTVE, when the ERC spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, recalled and reproached the popular, but also Vox, that as soon as they arrived To the municipal government of Borriana (Castellón) one of the main decisions of the right-wing was to withdraw several magazines written in Catalan from the local public libraries.

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As a result of the pact between PP and Vox, it was decided that Jesús Albiol, from the extreme right, would take charge of the Culture delegation in the recently launched legislature. This is a leader who since 2020 had been requesting from the opposition the cancellation of the subscription to the magazines The weather, know us y National Languagepublications that he qualified as “pan-Catalan propaganda” which, according to what he said, had cost the public coffers “11,626.40 euros”.

As soon as he took power, he decided to censor those publications. And, last Saturday, he celebrated it like this on social networks: “Mission accomplished. The Burriana City Council will not continue promoting Catalan separatism with the money of the people of Burriana. We are not second class Catalans, we are first class Valencians and Spanish. Camacuc, Strong horse, The weather, Enderrock, National Language… At the street!”.

Last night, and symbolically, Rufián gave the PP and Vox spokesmen, Cuca Gamarra and Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, a couple of those magazines in Catalan that are being banned in Borriana which, according to the ERC deputy, are about mainly children’s publications.

Rufián remarked that “it is a bad business” to bet on the vetoes. “They are not going to make the millions of people who speak Catalan disappear,” he pointed out. For his part, Espinosa de los Monteros noted that “the idea of ​​introducing Catalanism in Valencia has not been liked by some Valencians”.

The Platform for the Language of the Valencian Country has described as “intolerable” the fact that a public administration “pursues and censures” magazines because they are written in Valencian.