The platform We want Galego has managed to convene this morning in Santiago de Compostela to thousands of people to highlight the situation of “extreme linguistic emergency” that Galician is going through and its loss of space as a language of habitual communication in Galicia.
Under the motto of the declaration “Let’s unite polo galego”, the crowd gathered in the Compostela Quintana Square at the foot of the cathedral he demanded a change in the “course” of the social use of Galicia’s own language.
The event was attended by, among others, the national spokesperson for the BNG, Ana Pontonand the secretary general of the PSdeG, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro.
The president of A Mesa recalls the latest data from the IGE report on the use of Galician in society
The president of A Table for Linguistic Normalization, Marcos Maceirahe recalled report of the Galician Statistical Institute which reveals, among other data, that the population that always speaks Spanish already exceeds that which speaks Galician, or that a third of young people under fifteen years of age do not know how to speak the language of their homeland.
Maceira He drew attention, in statements to journalists, to the fact that every time Galician society mobilized to try to restore the situation of its language, the decline in the number of people who stopped speaking Galician stopped.
“They have been acting against the agreements established in the Galician Parliament for 15 years”
He also criticized the announcement of Galician Government about a great Lingua Pact and in which the president of To Table He said that “we cannot have any confidence.” “They have been acting against the agreements established in the Galician Parliament for 15 years,” he stated.
To reverse the difficult situation of the Galician language in society, Maceira advanced three proposals: establish plenary sessions of We want Galego throughout the Galician geography, “reaffirm the commitment” of society to its language, and call society back to a new event on February 23 – Rosalía de Castro Day – in the Obradoiro Square in Santiago de Compostela.
The national spokesperson of the BNG, Ana Pontonsaid that “today is a day to reclaim the pride of having our own language” but also “to denounce that the Galician language is in a critical situation.”
“The 15 years of galegophobic policies, of policies against Galician, are putting the future of our language on the ropes”
“The 15 years of policies galegophobicof policies against Galician, are putting the future of our language on the ropes,” said Pontón, although he stressed that “it is possible to change the course if the policy that the Xuntastarting with that decree – of multilingualism – of shame that turned Galician into a second-class language.
The nationalist policy reminded the Government chaired by Alfonso Rueda that it is more necessary than ever “to apply the great agreement regarding the language that we already have in this country, which is General Plan for Linguistic Normalization“.
For his part, the general secretary of the Galician socialists, José Ramón Gómez Besteiroaccused the national president of the PP and former president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóoand his successor at the head of the regional Executive, Alfonso Rueda, to “bring Galician to the situation in which it is now”, as a “minority language”.
The general secretary of the PSdeG has accused the Xunta of “bringing the Galician to the situation in which he finds himself now”
“We all have to join forces to change the linguistic emergency situation and make Galician regain its momentum as a language that unites all Galicians,” he stated.
The event, held this morning at the Quintana Squarewas hosted by the musician and activist Xurxo Souto and ended with the group’s performance Tanxugueiras.
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