Spanish democracy with pointless subtitles

The majority of MPs in the Spanish Senate have spoken out in favour of being able to speak in their respective regional languages in Senate in future. The conservative daily ABC finds this unreasonable: "At a time when austerity has become such an imperative that even President Zapatero understands the need to at least pretend to practice it with cosmetic cuts to the mammoth administrative apparatus, the Senate is proposing to contract translators for the various regional languages so that it can become a chamber with subtitles, a kind of UN for the autonomous regions, as it were, a parliament with headsets. But although the expenditure would be modest and affordable, the salient point about this initiative is paradoxically its triviality, the fact that it would be a purely superfluous gesture."

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