Kontseilua asks Lehendakari Urkullu for a new language policy through consensus

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Kontseilua has expressed concern about the court’s rulings “against the revitalization of the Basque language” and believes that they are part of the “judicial offensive”. For this reason, the country has reclaimed its commitment to increasing social consensus and worked “in depth” to do so.

GA | EITB MEDIUM

Several representatives of Euskalgintzaren Kontseilua today demanded from the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, that the Basque government “leap” in language policy face it “judicial offensive” against Basque.

The general secretary of Kontseilua, Idurre Eskisabelthe chairman of this organization, Aize Otañoand the member of management, Joanmari Larrartemet with the Lehendakari on Tuesday, Inigo Urkulluand the Minister of Culture and Language Policy, Bingen Zupiria.

Twenty years have passed since the two sides last met, and during the meeting held today at the Lehendakaritza headquarters, both sides shared their concerns about the attack on the normalization of the Basque Country and the challenges facing the Basque Country looking to the future.

Kontseilua’s representatives have expressed concern about the sentences passed by the courts “against the revitalization of the Basque language” and believe that they are part of the “judicial offensive”.

Faced with this, they have reaffirmed their commitment to broaden social and political consensus, and to work on it “in depth”. ‘The proof of that will is the dynamics Batuz Aldatu launch in 2021. This dynamic has brought together more than a hundred relevant actors of Basque society around two keys to the normalization of Basque: the universalization of knowledge, and the creation and dissemination of spaces for comfortable use,” said the General Secretary of Kontseilua.

To this end, the members of the Council are convinced that on these two foundations a broad social consensus can be built that “will serve as a channel for a political agreement to deepen language policy“In this way, Kontseilua has reported that they will start one in the coming months round contacts “in the search for a new political agreement that will allow progress in the normalization of the Basque Country,” said Eskisabel.

Source: EITB

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