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> Every official website in the country is in the four languages

This is plain wrong. I could give you (just making a quick Google search) hundreds of examples where you can see it's not true. Co-official languages are just second-class citizens here. Not only dozens of official web sites are Spanish language only, but also those who offer language selection mostly just change the menu option titles, but the actual content is only in Spanish.

Even Spain's anti-covid mobile application (Radar Covid) -whose UI is just a couple of messages, nothing very hard to translate- got translated to all the official languages only recently.

https://portal.mineco.gob.es/gl-es/comunicacion/Paxinas/defa... (I chose "GL", but the news are still in "ES")

https://www.casareal.es/GL/Paginas/home.aspx (the same)

https://industria.gob.es/renove/paginas/index.aspx (where's my language menu?)

https://www.rtve.es/ (no languages for our public televison website?)

This last one is a good example, because everybody, regardless of his language, funds RTVE through taxes, yet its live contents are mostly Spanish language only.

And we can find similar examples for the other topics. But no, I don't care what they do or speak in Murcia, I just want to have the same rights that someone from Murcia has in my region.



> I just want to have the same rights that someone from Murcia has in my region

So, am I understanding correctly that your answer to “what else do you need?” is that when you go to Murcia, you are expecting to be able to have access to galician/basque/catalan TV, justice, healthcare, public servants, etc., as when people from Murcia go elsewhere?


> So, am I understanding correctly that your answer to “what else do you need?” is that when you go to Murcia, you are expecting to be able to have access to galician/basque/catalan TV, justice, healthcare, public servants, etc., as when people from Murcia go elsewhere?

No, you got me wrong. What I wanted to say is that, _in my region_, where a co-official language is spoken, I want to have the same rights that people from Murcia have _here_, in my region!




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