“I haven’t read any of the proposals”, “we will decide when it is discussed”, “I don’t know”, “we will have to read it first”… Words used by the PP Most of the ombudsman in the Cortes, Miguel Barrachina, was in line: Vox’s Valencia, although not normative He was avoiding taking a position from his party on whether it would support his demand for the homologation of Lo Rat Penat titles in . Valencian Language is against the criteria of the Valencian Language Academy “If Consell says he will work on it, I think it’s great that he is working on it.” He went the furthest by saying.
Thus, PP refrained from showing direct support for Vox’s proposal on Monday. He did not refuse, relying on his ignorance of caution to avoid answering. The far-right formation registered a PNL in the Cortes, calling on the regional administration to grant official status “as quickly as possible” to titles granted by Lo Rat Penat, and to appoint those who have received this title by the Crown as Valencian teachers. The Academy of Culture of Valencia (RACV) is also based on the El Puig Standards.
“We want the formal recognition again of the El Puig Rules, which were the normative basis until they were rejected by Lerma for ideological reasons,” said José María Llanos, co-author of the motion. Moreover, the far-right parliamentarian stated that the proposal had been “agreed upon” with Consell and its constituent parties, PP and Vox, despite Barrachina opposing him minutes later.
Barrachina said, “There was no agreement on this issue with us, I did not sign or read this proposal.” The PNL, as registered in the Cortes, bears only the seal of the Vox parliamentary group and the signatures of two MPs: Llanos himself and deputy ombudsman Joaquín Alés. Later, Llanos announced that the two parties had a “government commitment” to “move forward” in this homologation and that the PNL was “contributing” to achieving this goal.
Another issue is how this can be achieved. A week ago regional government spokeswoman Ruth Merino assured Consell would look into the matter. According to Llanos, this change can be made without the need to reform the Charter. This states that the Valencian Academy of Languages is the institution that “determines official language regulations for public administrations”. “The statute does not prohibit anything,” she stressed. However, legal compliance is not easy, as the AVL institution, which is considered to have this authority, will give this capacity to organizations that do not comply with the language standards.
This legal alignment, without the need to reform the Autonomy Charter, is one of the issues that PP sources pointed out needed to be worked on before supporting the PNL, and which Merino took advantage of last week. First of all, considering that it is Education in the hands of the popular ones who have language proficiency.
It will not currently be discussed at the next plenary session, despite the emergency process that Vox supports. However, this did not prevent the opposition from intensifying their criticism of PPCV. PSPV’s deputy ombudsman, Arcadi España, stated that it was “difficult to distinguish between PP and Vox” and said, “Radicalism is contagious.” “Every week everything the far right touches turns into the far right,” he added, before noting that “the Valencia player is playing” this week.
According to socialists, this proposal amounts to “underestimating” the language by stating that “anyone can make whatever rules they want,” which is “something that cannot be done in Spanish or English.” Compromís Ombudsman Joan Baldoví asked Vox to “work”. “The statute is clear, the language authority belongs to the Valencian Language Academy, the rest is a desire to cause confusion,” he expressed.