"Women-led local council revives a small Spanish town against all odds"

 They wanted to stop the depopulation of the municipality... and they did it!

[Edited photo by Francisco Lomero]

"In mid-June, an all-female independent group, Women for the Municipality of Angüés (AMPMA), [began] its second term leading the small Aragonese town of Angüés, Spain, after winning, for the second time, an absolute majority in the municipal elections of May 28, 2023. Their term of office is today's most unique political phenomenon in Spain's democracy...

The first thing they did when they assumed the legislature in 2019 was to eliminate the mayor's salary and remove the cell phones, Christmas bonuses, and Christmas dinners of councilors paid by the City Council: Now, the positions are completely voluntary, and this saved the locality about 12 000 euros per year. In addition, they reduced energy costs by installing solar panels in the Town Hall and changing the street lighting."

Read more from source at Global Voices here.

Aragonese: Spain's most endangered language

With only 10,000 native speakers (worldwide) Aragonese has been listed as one of about half of the world's 6,900 contemporary languages that could disappear in the next 90 years.

The main cause of the serious state of this northern Spanish tongue is that some adults in the community are speakers, but very few children learn it or use it.

Also known as Aragoieraz, Altoaragonés, Aragonés, Fabla Aragonesa, Patués or High Aragonese, it is classified as Indo-European, Middle Indo-European, Late Indo-European, Italic-Venetic, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Old Latin, Spoken Latin, Hispanic, Pyrenean-Mozarabic, Pyrenean.

The variations and dialects have been divided into Western Southern Central and Eastern Aragonese.

[Source: here.]