Sol Cruz Guzmán, spokesperson for Culture of the Popular Party, considers that “the spectacle of Cervantes” that Luis García Montero offered yesterday, with his new criticisms of the Royal Spanish Academy and its director, Santiago Muñoz Machado, “perfectly defines what it is … sanchism“.
“What is worrying is not this specific disagreement, but the toxic climate that the Government has installed in all institutions dependent on the State and in all areas, including that of language”, declared the policy of the PP to ABC the day after the director of the Institute dynamited the board of directors of Cervantes with a conduct that RAE sources describe as “inexplicable”.
In the opinion of Cruz Guzmán, “The Spanish language needs serious institutions that cooperate“, not public and superfluous disputes born from political disputes” and the new confrontation fueled by García Montero “with the intention of publicly polemicizing”,“This makes a significant dent in both institutions.”
The RAE “is an indisputable reference in the defense and study of Spanish, particularly appreciated for its rigor, and deserves respect», recalls the PP, which calls for “turn the page on sterile and unprecedented personalist debates“.
“Spain needs culture unites again and does not divide. This is what the PP will do as soon as it governs,” promised Cruz Guzmán, convinced that “confidence in our institutions, responsible for the unity of our country, will experience a slow but undoubtedly necessary recovery.”
During an informative breakfast preceding the meeting of the Board of Directors of Cervantes, chaired by the Kings at the Palace of Aranjuez, García Montero attacked Muñoz Machado and the RAE again for having decided “for yourself” that Panama will be the seat of the next Languages Congress. “It is up to Cervantes to offer a seat to the language academies,” argued the director of the institution.
RAE sources later denied García Montero, assuring that the agreement to designate Panama was taken in Arequipa unanimously by the Association of Spanish Language Academies (Asale).
Neither the director of the RAE, nor the secretary of Asale, Francisco Javier Pérez, nor the academic Luis Mateo Díez attended the meeting of the Cervantes board of directors yesterday.
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