Declaration of Elche
The network entities Linked to Language, formed by groups of all the Catalan linguistic area, meeting in plenary session 1 October 2016, Calaforra in Elche, with the aim of fighting "For the full guarantee of our linguistic rights"And to analyze the specific situation of the language in the Valencian Country and especially in the southern regions, adopted the following resolution:
For over a year the Valencian society voted and decided to make the outside of the Valencian PP government and its disastrous policies in all areas, Pero, especially, in the linguistic field.
For that, now, past fifteen months since the establishment of the new Valencian Government, Linked from the language that we must make a substantial change to achieve equality for all the Valencian language: the Valencian speakers should enjoy the same rights and the same normal use now only have Spanish.
To achieve this linguistic equality, it is necessary to provide ourselves with a new legal framework, because the Law of Use and Teaching of Valencian, After a third of a century, has already proved its ineffective: outdated, has not given the results intended and is far from guaranteed the same language rights for all citizens. In all these years, basic rules have changed as the Statute of Autonomy, the civil law or several educational standards, but the law must contribute to the linguistic equality of Valencia and Valencia.
To achieve this linguistic equality must also make a firm commitment in education and establish, so widespread, the language used is to be Valencian, as well as the exemption repeal any study that is not applied equally to Spanish. Meanwhile the Council ask the urgent regulation of the exemptions and the dignity of teachers working areas of the Valencian language predominates established in the Spanish LUEV, especially in the Vega Baja.
We understand that even trilingual education system must be designed to ensure learning the language of the country for all students, ha d’assegurar el coneixement de l’altra llengua oficial i l’aprenentatge funcional d’una llengua estrangera. Respecte del decret de plurilingüisme demanem la supressió dels dos nivells bàsics, maintain intermediate 1 provisionally in some centers, applying a more flexible schedule, in the course 2017 – 2018 situate the current multilingual education programs in Spanish -PPEC- in the Intermediate 2, both in public education and in the need for concerted and the Ministry of Education planifique the implementation of various programs to ensure that Valencia be the vehicular language of the educational system Valencian forward towards social and territorial cohesion of our inter-country and prevent the segregation that has not reached LOMCE.
Moreover, it is urgent to set up radio and television Valencia, recover emissions Catalan Broadcasting Corporation (CCMA) i sumar-hi the IB3. We applaud the reciprocity agreements Catalan and Valencian governments aparaulats, although not understand why it is not immediately receive the channels of the CCMA or IB3, because technically there is no problem.
Therefore, Valencian Government to claim that this term be the approval of a law that linguistic equality pose the bases and means that all citizens of the Valencian language and have the same rights to live in their own language with what normal now only enjoyed by those who use Spanish, with clear regulations that garantesquen rights and correlative duties, with the instruments necessary to make them effective, and targets defined normal, both in its realization as the deadlines for achieving. This desire for linguistic equality should also be moved to other Catalan-speaking territories. Ras i curt: a law transforming a verifiable plan of action and not a formal declaration of good intentions.
Finally, Aragonese urge the government and all parliamentary groups of the Parliament of Aragon to a full and effective official in the Gaza Catalan, garantesca that the Catalan teaching and to the public that favors done and support the initiatives of organizations Strip.
Elche, 1 d'October 2016
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