Madrid: Spain s upper house of parliament approved on Wednesday a controversial education reform bill, which removes a stipulation that Spanish must be the main language in classrooms across the nation.
The measure was included in the bill at the request of Catalan separatist party ERC, whose support is needed by Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez s minority government to pass legislation at national level.
The ERC helped approve Sanchez s 2021 budget on Tuesday in the Senate, prompting accusations from the main opposition conservative Popular Party (PP) that Sanchez was now paying the price with the education law reform. The price is throwing Spanish out the window of classroom in Catalonia forever, the party s spokesman in the senate, Javier Maroto, said ahead of the vote.
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