Compromís endorses the agreement between Ximo Puig and the president of the Congress, Francina Armengol, for the double denomination of “Catalan/Valencian”. This was confirmed yesterday to this newspaper by the still leader of the coalition and deputy in Congress, Àgueda Micó, who recalled that it was Compromís who brought this initiative to the European Union. “For us, the two things that the Valencian Academy of Language defends have always been clear: the unity of the language with which it is spoken in Catalonia or the Balearic Islands, and the denomination of Valencian”.
Last Monday, the PSPV leader reported that he had held a meeting with Armengol to implement this double denomination in Congress. The objective, he added, is for the name “Valencian” to be present “as our Statute and the AVL defend.” Ximo Puig’s announcement was criticized by the Valencian PP. Its general secretary of the PPCV, Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca, affirmed that “Valencians must have the place they deserve in all institutions and we are not going to allow the GPP to become political at the expense of our hallmarks and our language. Sánchez and Armengol have the obligation to respect the Valencian without anyone asking them to. There is a lack of will and desire and there are plenty of ads”.
Àgueda Micó recalled yesterday the report prepared by the General Directorate for Language Policy in 2019, with the government of the Botànic, which precisely requested that double denomination “Valencian/Catalan” in the institutions. The report refers firstly to the agreement of the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, which defines that “Valencian” is the name of the language that is also spoken in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands under the name “Catalan”. “We have always been clear about it, we speak Valencian, which is our common language with other regions and which is called Catalan in Catalonia and the Islands,” she adds.
The aforementioned report underlines that “in the territorial scope of the current Valencian Community, the language of the Valencians has mostly received the name of Valencian or Valencian language, which began to become generalized, above all, from the second half of the XV because of the political-economic, cultural and literary splendor that the Kingdom of Valencia reached at that time”.
Àgueda Micó underlines that this report also includes that there are up to 46 final judgments of the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court and the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community, pronounced between 1997-2013, which endorse the validity of the Catalan term to refer to the Valencian and, therefore, legally confirm their linguistic affiliation.
