316 years after the Battle of Almansa unexpectedly determined the elimination of the Furs and all the self-government institutions conceived by Jaume I almost 500 years before, this afternoon we will carry out a critical review of the state of self-government in the act organized by Juristes Valencians from 6:30 p.m. in the Plaza de la Virgen del cap i casal. April 25 is a day of mourning, and at the time of the 2nd Republic the Senyera was at half mast in the institutions, a good practice that I think should be recovered.
Reasons for criticism are not lacking in view of the perpetual underfunding since Joan Lerma assumed the powers of education and health, without since then a participation in the General State Budgets equivalent to our population has never been achieved. After 10 years of existence of the FLA, renamed as regional financing funds, and with a debt of the Valencian Community of 55,000 million euros, it is time to get a “reduction” in view of the fact that since the model of regional financing in 2014, no real solutions have been seriously undertaken to offset the indebtedness undertaken by the Consell to maintain necessary social spending.
In addition to underfinancing and the need to recover Civil Law, we have other “Almansas” that worry us every day, such as the state of the railways and the difficulty of traveling by train between our cities and counties, or the performance of the Ecological transition minister, Teresa Ribera, with the transfer of the Tagus to Vega Baja, a process almost as opaque as the Castor project, whose environmental impact statement was authorized by the current minister in 2009, when she was a high-ranking official in the government of RodrÃguez Zapatero , and that so much concern generated in Vinaròs.
But this April 25th, we will be fair with initiatives worthy of respect for all Valencians, such as the effort of the irrigators of Aldaia and the towns of Vega Baja (Orihuela, Redován, Bigastro, Jacarilla, AlmoradÃ, Benijófar, Benejúzar, Algorfa, Callosa de Segura and Rafal) who have achieved that the Organic Law of the Judiciary recognize the Tribunal del Rollet and the Juzgado Privativo de Aguas de Orihuela as customary and traditional courts, a dignity that the Tribunal de les Aigües also has.
Juristes Valencians will also recognize the four main municipal groups of the cap i casal, including the 6 Ciudadanos councilors by decision of Fernando Giner, for the timely motion of January 26 in which they made 3 decisions worthy of consideration; the first to keep the Statue of Francesc de Vinatea in a prominent place in the main square of the city, the second to spread his defense of self-government, and the third, motivated because just one day after the January 25 Cuca Gamarra and Félix Bolaños will reach an agreement in principle to restrict the constitutional reform to the regulation of disability, the 4 most important municipal groups in Valencia, agreed to require the Constitutional Commission to jointly process art. 49 (disability) and that of Civil Law.
Salva Enguix said it on Sunday, the electoral success of the PP and the PSOE at the state level is played in Valencia. The result seems very close, in any case, whether MarÃa José Catalá or Sandra Gómez is mayor, or Joan Ribó continues, the future mayor of the autonomous capital, must be aware that, by holding the maximum representation of the city, he assumes a leadership and responsibility beyond the strict municipal limits.
Being mayoress or mayor of Valencia, is to be the successor of figures as dignified as that of Vinatea, who stood before a medieval King for the integrity of the Kingdom, or like that of Jurat Blanquer, who despite being a follower of Felipe V, suffered imprisonment in the castle of Pamplona for defending our self-government by trying to prevent the abolition of the Furs.
Being mayor of Valencia, I think it requires generosity with all the Valencians in our regions, and combating this tendency that is so harmful to our identity of making less of Valencians from other provinces. The mayors of Valencia must avoid the centralism of the cap i casal, and are obliged to be “valentins†and also very Valencian “from Senia to Seguraâ€.
The current mayor, Joan Ribó, has constantly defended the recovery of our statutory civil legislative capacity; He did it before the former Minister of Justice, Juan Carlos Campo, and also in a multitude of motions approved on the issue in the last 7 years. He trusted Papi Robles to take note of Ribó’s behavior. MarÃa José Catalá, if she is mayor, is obliged to make Núñez Feijóo fulfill the promise that Esteban González Pons made in favor of the recovery of Valencian Civil Law in 2007, that is, to continue in line with how he acted recently when he tried to get them to Corts concluded the legislature by reiterating before Congress the defense of civil legislative competence. If Sandra Gómez is, she will have to act very demanding with the state executive, especially if, as we wish, before the dissolution of the Cortes Generales, the processing of the constitutional reform of article 49 advances.
This April 25, together with the mayor of Morella Rhamsés Ripollés and many residents of Vega Baja, we will lament the consequences of the “Nueva Planta Decrees” in the Plaça de la Mare de Déu, which at the time of the Civil War it was called Plaça de Vinatea. We will denounce the current “Almansas”, and we will reward the good works of many Valencians who do not give up.
