Not for the Silesian language bill again!

The draft law on the designation of the Silesian language as regional was re-directed to the National and cultural Minorities Committee after the PiS's request to reject it. The vote against the task was besides announced by the Confederacy. The support for regulation was expressed by all the forces of the ruling coalition.

During the Thursday (8.01) gathering in the Parliament of the project, Ms Monika Rosa (KO), explained that the task provided for granting the Silesian ethnolect regional language position – the same as the Kashubian language. The amendments besides include the composition of the Committee on the Common Government and National and cultural Minorities, which would be supplemented by 2 representatives utilizing the Silesian language.

Draft law on the Silesian language addressed to the committee again

During the second reading, support for the bill was expressed by the clubs KO, PSL, Poland 2050, the Left and the Membership ellipse Together. Members of the parliamentary clubs of PiS, Confederacy and the parliamentary circles of the Confederation of the Polish Crown announced that their clubs would not support the project.

On behalf of Law and Justice, Wojciech Zubrowski stressed that the task is attempting to replace technological evaluation by a political decision.

We don't request to make artificial divisions where discipline sees unity. We must not treat language as a tool for political play, and government should be based on facts, data and opinions of independent experts. said Mr Zubrowski.

Among the opponents of the task was the Confederation, arguing that the task interferes with the natural improvement of the language.

– The language does not arise in cabinets, commissions, or in seismic printing. (...) The Silesian dialect is simply a branch of the Polish language, a natural component of its wealth, alternatively than an entity that needs to be artificially separated by administrative decision – said Witold Tumanowicz.

Mr Łukasz Ściebiorowski, who stressed that the issue afraid respect for citizens' rights and criticised the presidential veto, was opposed.

It concerns whether the Polish state can treat its citizens with respect, whether it can keep its word, or whether it can admit a mistake. president Andrzej Duda vetoed this bill, not due to the fact that it was legislatively flawed, that it was contrary to the constitution that it violated the unity of the state. He vetoed her for political reasons, narrating fear and prejudice – emphasised Ściebiorowski.

Similar positions were taken by representatives of the Polish People's Party, Poland 2050, Left and Circles Together.

The re-projectors believe that Members of the Law and Justice of advanced Silesia, who voted in 2024 to recognise the Silesian language as a regional language (Bolesław Piecha and Marek Merry) can convince president Nawrocki, who has late vetoed a akin solution to the Welsh language.

Under the proposed amendment of the Act, the Silesian language is to be entered in the Act on National and cultural Minorities as the second regional language, alongside the Kashubian language. This means, among others, the anticipation of introducing voluntary classes from the Silesian language into schools, the installation of bilingual plates with the names of localities where the usage of the Silesian language declares more than 20% of the inhabitants, the co-financing of activities related to the preservation of the Silesian language, and the introduction of 2 representatives of people utilizing the Silesian language to the committee of common government and national and cultural minorities.