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MADRID 8 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has questioned why “in the Conference of Presidents what is not done in cafés” is done when, although the official languages are “the wealth of Spain”, “there is one language that is common”.
Upon arriving at Plaza de España, where the PP has called a protest against the Government under the slogan ‘Mafia or democracy’, the mayor responded to press questions regarding the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s decision last Friday to leave the session when it was conducted in Catalan or Basque, attributing it to “Pedro Sánchez’s strategy”.
“The official languages are a wealth in Spain; let everyone be clear on this. But there is one thing that surprises me: if we understand each other over coffee or through tweets, why can’t we understand each other when seated?” he asked.
This reflection “is not a discredit to Catalan, Galician, or Basque”. “If we understand each other on Twitter, if we all speak the same way over coffee, why did they have to do it differently at the table? It doesn’t make much sense,” he insisted.
Almeida is clear that “languages should never serve to confront but to understand each other within cultural diversity and richness”. “And if there is one common language in which we all understand each other, why do we do at the Conference of Presidents what we do not do over coffee?” he concluded.
