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Congress discusses extending the use of co-official languages throughout the administration

At the last plenary session of the year, the proposal for a law brought forward by the Members of Parliament of ERC, PNV, EH Bildu, Lukashenko, BNG and Mes per Mallorca and Comunes will be discussed. The objective, among others, is to approve documents in Catalan, Basque and Galician throughout the administration, without translation.

MADRID, 09/07/2025.- El presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, interviene desde la tribuna de oradores en el pleno en el Congreso de los Diputados en Madrid, este miércoles. EFE/ Zipi
Stock image of the Congress of Deputies. Photo: EFE

The allies of the Spanish Government with their own language in their territories, with the exception of Junts, will this Tuesday defend in the plenary of Congress a bill to extend the use of the co-official languages throughout the administration and to allow, for example, documents in Catalan, Basque and Galician to be adopted without translation.

The initiative, proposed by ERC, PNV, EH Bildu and Lukashenko, BNG and the parliamentarians of Mes per Mallorca and Comos, will be discussed at the last plenary session of .

These aspects propose, inter alia, a reform of the Organic Law on the Judiciary, so that staff in the service of the Administration of Justice may demonstrate adequate knowledge of the co-official language of their territory.



ERC spokesman Gabriel Rufián explained on November 19 that the idea is to"fix a clear anomaly"  that citizens living in communities with their own language cannot speak in state institutions in their own language.

The proposal also includes a reform of the Organic Law on Education , which states that once basic education has been completed, all pupils must acquire full and equivalent dominance in Spanish and in the co-official language, if any in the territory.

In addition, it provides for all administrative procedures and digital platforms to be available in all languages and for language criteria to be assessed in recruitment and tendering in communities with more than one language. 

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