The Valencian left has taken to the streets this afternoon, according to the call for Cultural Action of the Valencian Country that claims “language, culture and the future”. This first ‘Day’ since PP and Vox have been governing in coalition, has been presided over by a motto chosen by the centenary of Vicent Andrés Estellés, his verse: “What is worth is the awareness of being nothing if you are not a people”.
In the morning, at the event ‘País Valencià, la gaze d’Estellés’ also organized by Acció Cultural, representatives of the Valencian, Catalan and Balearic left have called to mobilize and “join forces” from institutions, social movements and the street to “recover the dignity of our country” in the face of the “setbacks” of the “governments of shame” of the PP and Vox in the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands in areas such as linguistics and their policies that “hide hatred of everything that they do not represent”.
The event included the participation of the Councilor of the Presidency of the Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Laura Vilagrà; the president of the Socialist Federation of Mallorca and deputy in the Balearic Parliament, Patricia Gómez; the representative of Compromís-Sumar in Congress Àgueda Micó; the president of the Valencian Culture Council, Dolors Pedrós; the director of the Institution of Catalan Letters, Izaskun Arretxe; and the curator of Año Estellés, the poet Àngels Gregori.
The Compromís-Sumar deputy in Congress Àgueda Micó has warned of the current “moment of democratic emergency” and the “serious setbacks” in individual and collective freedoms both in the Valencian Community and “in the rest of the world”, a situation which he has attributed to the interest of the “economic oligarchies” and the “inheritor of Franco” class, whom he has accused of “not accepting the change of paradigm and course” that occurred after the economic crisis of 2008.
Precisely, as a result of this mobilization, Micó has considered three issues that “revolutionized” citizen movements as “keys” to understanding political and social “change”: the attempt to “democratize the economy”, something that he considers is still “pending” ; the “legitimate” right of the people to decide and the “feminist revolution.”
At this point, the Compromís deputy has charged against the “patrimonial vision of power” of the “economic elites”, who “do not want people other than them to hold power and improve people’s lives.” “That is the question of that great union of all economic, media and political forces to make a counterrevolution,” she has criticized.
The coalition parliamentarian has also taken the opportunity to denounce the policies of what she has dubbed the “government of shame” of the PP and Vox in the Valencian Community in matters of “educational freedom”, “democratic harmony” or the “white culture of bullfighting vice president”, in reference to the Minister of Culture, Vicente Barrera (Vox). Some proposals that, according to Micó, “actually hide hatred of everything that they do not represent.”
“They want political power to privatize education and health again, to do business with rights and freedoms. We are not in a post-war moment, but there is a fierce battle,” he warned. Faced with this situation, he has urged to “join forces” from institutions, social movements and the streets to “recover the dignity of our country.”
For her part, the counselor of the Presidency of the Government of Catalonia, Laura Vilagrà, has charged against the “ignominy” and “ignorance” of the Valencian Government for not celebrating the Estellés Year “institutionally” and, in response to this, has opted for “reinforce” and work together between the different territories of Catalan linguistic dominance so as not to be “complicit” in the “silence” of the current governments of these regions. “It’s something that affects us all,” she stressed.
Thus, he has advocated “reacting” to the “censorship” of magazines in Catalan that have been produced, for example, in municipalities such as Borriana (Castellón), and has indicated that the Generalitat of Catalonia has “picked up the gauntlet” in a ” “temporary” of the Guillem Agulló Prize that until last year was awarded by Les Corts Valencianes and suppressed in this year by Vox with the support of the PP, until the Valencian parliament can “recover” this award.
He has also defended the Government’s commitment to “cross the borders” of the Catalan language so that it is placed “wherever it belongs” in areas such as education, health and audiovisuals, and has stressed the need to “break the borders and division that they want to impose on us”, for which he has encouraged “taking advantage of synergies” of collaboration.
Meanwhile, the president of the Socialist Federation of Mallorca and deputy in the Balearic Parliament, Patricia Gómez, has regretted the “negative image” that the PP and Vox government in the Balearic Islands has caused in this region and has charged against its “impunity.” “. Furthermore, she has denounced that the regional Executive intends that Catalan “does not exist” because “it bothers them”, as well as democratic memory. “Any attack is a step backwards,” she said.
The event held at the Teatro Olympia in Valencia was also attended by several socialist and compromise leaders, officials and dignitaries, such as coalition senator and ex-president of Les Corts Valencianes Enric Morera, regional deputy Maria Josep Amigó, ex-councilor Vicent Soler and cultural personalities such as the former managing director of the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community (CMCV) and the Carme Contemporary Culture Center (CCCC) José Luis Pérez Pont, among others.
