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1. Official Language/s.
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Should Eritrea have an official language or languages. Vote Yes, No or Abstain as your first word of your take on this item. You may then, if you elect to do so, continue to justify your vote in a paragraph of less than 200 words. If “Yes” gets the majority,
2. Which language/s?
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What language or languages should be Eritrea’s official language/s? Based on previous deliberations on this matter, the Assembly has narrowed the options to the ones shown on the Voting Tool. Vote using the tool and also indicate your vote as your first sentence of your take on this item. You
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Yes, so I vote. For a poor country such as Eritrea, it is not practical not to have an official language. The challenge is more so if the alternative is, as the Speaker pointed out, to treat all Eritrean languages as equal. However, to the section on the constitution on official language, a provision could be added that obligates the government to provide an interpreter, free of charge, for any citizen who does not speak the official language/s of the country.
No, so I vote. Eritrea should avoid designating any of its languages as official. All native languages of the country, the languages of the nine ethnic groups, should all equally be official. Designating one may not be acceptable to the rest who do not speak it as their first language.
Yes, so I vote. For the sake of political correctness, we should not ignore practicability for we live in the reality. Ideals that we could not implement are not good.