There are three ministries called “strategic” of any regional government: Finance, Health and Education. The first, because it involves control of the treasury, on which the rest of the portfolios will depend when planning their budgets. The case of Health is obvious: it is the one that needs the largest budget and the one that defines, to a large extent, the social policies of a government. And Education acquires, in the Valencian case, a special dimension as it is a bilingual autonomy and with an immense body of officials and aware of their work.
Carlos Mazón, the next Valencian president, today offered important clues about the areas of government in which he wants the PP to manage them and not Vox. He has pointed it out in an interview on Cadena COPE: “for the PP, the Ministries of Education and Health are key.” And he has even announced that, in the case of Education, he had the right person “to put an end to the Valencian process in schools.”
There is another important factor for the PP to want to manage this department and it is the need to manage the area without generating tension in the teaching staff, which if it were handed over to Vox could mean a conflictive start to the legislature due to the drastic positions of this party in matters like the use of Valencian.
The president of the PPCV has underlined the “irrevocable” commitment to have “educational freedom” and to remove “ideology” from the classroom, and indicated that one of the first things that must be done “urgently is to end the Office of Linguistic Police, put an end to an entire army of hand-picked language advisers” and “reconstitute” the figure of educational inspectors.
He has regretted, as he had done during the campaign, that the language requirement has reached the Health Department, where to consolidate a position as a doctor “the Valencian counts the same as the doctorate in your training”, and has indicated that it is necessary to put an end to the “Valencian process” that the left has applied in the Valencian Community for the last eight years.
Representatives of the PP and Vox are holding an extensive first meeting today to advance the government agreement, which integrates both the distribution of management areas and the definition of the policies that will be implemented during the next legislature. Representatives David García and Vicente Barrera, and Juan Pablo Cruz, Coordinator of the VOX Parliamentary Group, participate on behalf of the VOX parliamentary group, and on behalf of the Popular Group, the campaign manager and regional deputy, Miguel Barrachina, deputy Laura Chuliá, and the Deputy and Mayor of Almoradí María Gómez.
