The Deputy Minister of Language Policy, Miren Dobaran, has acknowledged that the aim is not to approve the decree regulating the normalization of the use of Basque in the public sector “yes or yes this legislature”, but to “provide the best possible text”. .
The Basque government proposes a ten-year time horizon to “guarantee the linguistic rights” of citizens in their relationship with the government, which by then should be able to help everyone who uses this language in Basque.
This has been announced by the State Secretary for Language Policy. Watch Dobaranwho has appeared in the Basque Parliament at the request of EH Bildu to explain at what point in the processing this project is to renew the decree regulating the normalization of the use of Basque in the public sector.
The first draft was made public last September and is now in a second process of collecting fees. The purpose of so many consultations is the desire to “get it right” as it updates a decree that has been in effect for nearly 30 years and is a problem that affects some 150,000 civil servants.
“The goal is not to pass it yes or yes this legislature,” but to achieve “the best possible text,” Dobaran said, although his “intention” is to see the light before Parliament dissolves next spring by calling regional elections.
He has assured that the text will be “feasible and realistic” and will take into account that “a third of the population is Basque” and that 50% of the questions citizens ask the administration are in Basque.
The regulation of the profiles required of employees contains new features compared to 1997. For example, the “asymmetries”that is, in certain functions, the levels of oral and written expression can be distinguished.
Another novelty is that it opens the door to a new way of demonstrating knowledge of the language and being exempt from accrediting a profile: do the tests of the selection process in Basque.
From the opposition groups, Rebeka Ubera (E. H. Bildu) It has shown “concern” about the “delay” in the handling of the decree and has insisted that it be adopted quickly because there is “a generational change” in the administration and timing is “key” to prevent there is “another generation that cannot guarantee language rights”.
By Elkarrekin Podemos-IU, Gustavo Angulo, has argued for “combining” language rights and the right to public employment, traversing profiles that correspond to sociolinguistic realities. He has also criticized the scant information on the decree provided by the Basque government.
The popular Carmelo neighborhood He argued that the rules should be drawn up with realism and prudence to ensure legal certainty and respect sociolinguistic realities and recalled that there are two official languages in Euskadi, but that the “common language is Castilian”.
Source: EITB
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