Yesterday, the Valencian government chaired by Carlos Mazón approved an agreement to establish the new linguistic criteria for the administration of the Generalitat Valenciana. Criteria that, according to what they defend, are committed to a “clearer”, “understandable” and “closer to what is spoken on the street” language.
A decision that is made 10 days after the Corts Valencianes will begin the process of the new educational freedom law that will allow the base language of education to be changed and that, very presumably, will lower the percentages of Valencian. In just a few days, the new language policy of the Generalitat that came out of the polls last March 28 begins a new stage, although without reaching the extremes desired by Vox, the minority part of the executive.
The new criteria developed by the General Directorate of Linguistic Policy (in the hands of the PP) and that will be applicable by the Administration and its instrumental public sector from the day after its publication in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat Valenciana, rely on words like hui instead of avui, lay down instead of appropriate, or faena, before feina. In this way, the executive highlights that the objective is none other than “to achieve effective communication and for citizens to feel comfortable using the language of the Valencian Community.”
A change with respect to the criteria of the previous left-wing executive that the current tenants of the Consell consider necessary in the face of the disaffection that in their opinion was caused by the use by the Valencian Administration of “words that had been Catalanized.”
However, the new linguistic criteria do not represent a total affront to the authority of the Valencian Academy of Language (AVL) – the entity that has the regulatory capacity – which had been very critical in its report on the proposal. In fact, the intention is not for these criteria (which are for the Administration and its companies) to become generalized and reach, for example, the AVL, which will be able to maintain its own.
Along these lines, sources from the Department of Education explain to La Vanguardia that “all the proposals have been observed and those that have been considered relevant have been modified.” Thus, although it is clarified that “the AVL’s objections are not mandatory, it is emphasized that in “the first part of the report it makes it clear that the AVL regulations are followed” and that “changes have been introduced to AVL suggestions.” and others at the suggestion of other entities” since it has been an “open” process.
This is why it can be said that the PP has contained its Vox partners who, from the beginning of the legislature, have been against the Academy’s regulations. Also in educational matters, the popular have exercised their majority and have maintained minimum percentages of Valencians in the Valencian-speaking regions, contrary to the criterion of ultra-education.
A party, whose trustee, José María Llanos, did not hesitate to criticize the Valencian School meeting in favor of public education and in Valencian in which the president of the Provincial Council, the popular Vicent Mompó, participated.
An attendance that generated a lot of debate in the sectors opposed to the unity of the language that move around Vox and PP. Days after his participation in the meeting for the Valencian, Mompó posted a speech on the networks for the yes that received applause from Lo Rat Penat – an entity contrary to the unity of the Valencian and Catalan, which had criticized the role of the Provincial Council in the trobadas-. In his speech, Mompó opted to use “words from here” along the same lines that the Valencian government approved yesterday.