Allow me to address you as a citizen of the “Valencia region” regarding your statements at the popular party rally that was held last Sunday and where you intervened prominently in it. I am referring, without a doubt, to their unfortunate statements regarding our region, our language and their great business, their dramas, self-absorption and impositions and what they have us locked up. But, above all, that “there is no right to create a country where there was none, there is no right to create a regionalist sentiment where there was none.” On the other hand, I do agree with you that one of our greatest treasures is our language. What’s more, I dare to add, that the greatest treasure is the diversity of them in our country.
As for the “region”. Although formally it can be used to call a specific territory, it sounds to me like an outdated, artificial word from other times. As you should know, we are an autonomy that, in its autonomy statute, in its article 1.1 says: “The Valencian people, historically organized as the Kingdom of Valencia, constitutes an Autonomous Community, within the unity of the Spanish Nation, as an expression of its differentiated identity as a historical nationality and in the exercise of the right of self-government that the Spanish Constitution recognizes for all nationalities, with the name of Comunitat Valenciana”.
On the other hand, in the book Tirant lo Blanch written around 1460-1464 by the Valencian nobleman Joanot Martorell, on page 2 he says, among others: (I allow myself to translate into Spanish, since this book was written in our sweet language, because surely he does not understand it, unless he speaks it privately) “I will dare to expose: not only from English to Portuguese. Even more Portuguese in Vulgar Valenciana, so that the nation where I am from can rejoice…”
Listening to her, it seems that there is only one feeling, one thought and one language. What’s more, it seems to bother you that other historical nationalities speak and think differently from you. You should get him to look at it. We are in the 21st century where cultural and thought plurality flows like never before and at an unlimited speed. Where this multiculturalism enriches the regions and the people who live there in peace and harmony.
As I indicated before, we have been “Valencian nationality” for many years and we have spoken our own language for hundreds of years. This does not come from now, nor has it been manufactured, nor negotiated. The feeling has not been manufactured. Either you have or you do not. Just like you, as you are a politician, you believe that everything can be faked. Well no!
The Valencian identity already existed before you came here. In fact, the identity of a people or nation is far above political ideologies. Being Valencian, as I am, is a feeling far above left and right. I’m just Valencian. Something that you will never be able to feel.
Note that when I listened to that fragment of one minute and eighteen seconds where you said what you said, it seemed to me that you were referring to another community. Even that it was an internal wake-up call for the Valencian drift of the Valencian popular party. Or simply that he had forgotten to mention some Valencian political parties to whom I thought his message was directed. But not. You leave nothing to oblivion or improvisation. You said what you said knowing full well that you were putting all of us Valencianists in the same bag. Without distinction. I wonder if Carlos Mazón and Maria Jose Catalá told you anything about it. Although seeing how they applauded him wildly, I doubt very much that they dared to correct her. The one that moves does not appear in the photo, and they know that you are one of those who pay attention to those details.
Dear Isabel, we don’t manufacture anything here, we don’t need it, we already are! for hundreds of years and we feel that we belong to our historical nationality for those same years.
With nothing else to say and waiting for him to reconsider his words or qualify them, he says goodbye,
Vixca Valencia Juan Carlos Galindo
