A judge prohibits a municipality Catalan to work the Day of the National Holiday in a Spanish – Sputnik World

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18:27 11.10.2016updated at 18:43 11.10.2016) shortened URL

The judge deems that “in the event that will take effect the decision of the city Council of Badalona” there would be an “irreparable injury” to the “general interest”.

In this way, the magistrate adopted the measures requested by the Government Delegation in Barcelona, which decided to bring this matter before the Justice after the councillor of the Consistory was announced on Monday that it offered to the City employees the possibility of converting the day in business.

“The fixation, in this case by Law, of a particular day as a national holiday (and the same thing happens with the festivities of the autonomous community and local) due to social and cultural reasons, which reflect a general interest, social or collective in their celebration,” expressed the order of the magistrate.

The Day of the National Holiday of spain celebrates October 12 to commemorate the day the expedition of Christopher Columbus she first set foot on american soil.

The law that declares that day as a holiday refers to that event as the moment that “this is a period of projection of linguistic and cultural beyond the limits of europe”.

however, some sectors of the Spanish left and the pro-independence rejected every year, this festivity to ensure that what it really commemorates is the conquest of territory by force and the subjugation of the peoples who inhabited them.

The mayor of Badalona, a municipality located in the comarca of Barcelona, where he governs a coalition municipalist linked to we Can and the CUP, considers that this festival extols values colonialists, and commemorated the “genocide” that in his view was the conquest of America.

In that context, the mayor, of name Dolors Sabater, decided that the holiday of the 12 of October (also known as columbus day) did not offer any reason for not going to work.

According to the self which prohibits Dolors Sabater and his team to work during that day, the decision of the city Council “follows a determined approach to political or ideological nature” so that “the individual decision of each worker to go or not go to work that day, it may not be entirely free and, in addition, could be contrary to the fundamental right to freedom of ideology”.

Read also: The Military parade in Madrid with occasion of the National Holiday