PP and Vox have presented this afternoon in Les Corts Valencianes a package with up to five law proposals “from their reformist agenda” with an obvious symbolic and political charge. In a call that was made this morning, the partners of the Valencian Government have outlined their proposal to change the current Botànic multilingualism model in educational centers in favor of the so-called “educational freedom”; a new Concordia law to include “all victims of political violence”; as well as significant changes in Valencian television or in the election system of the Antifraud agency. A “counter-reform”, the PSPV has pointed out, a “dark day for Valencian democracy”, Compromís has pointed out, both from the opposition.
The most important is the bill that provides that all families will have the right to participate in the choice of the base language (Valencian or Spanish) of educational centers. Once the percentage of families that choose each base language in each course and school is known, it will be determined how many groups are offered in each base language. Ultimately, the majority criterion will prevail. A return to the Castilian or Valencian double line system, although with some modifications.
The deputy spokesperson of the PP Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca (who has explained the rule in perfect Valencian) has indicated that Spanish-speaking areas will not be obliged to teach 25% of the subjects in Valencian. The subject of Valencian may be taught exclusively and then the students will decide whether to take the exam or not.
In the Valencian-speaking areas, the PP leader has pointed out, the base language (the chosen one) will always have greater weight than the other co-official language. In early education, the other co-official language will be taught for 25% of the teaching time, in compliance with jurisprudence. From 3rd grade onwards, there will be a greater balance between the two co-official languages, with a maximum difference of 20% of the time between them.
In addition, the requirement of level C1 of Valencian will be required of teachers of Early Childhood, Primary, ESO, Baccalaureate and Adult Education. In the rest of the teachings, such as vocational training and special regime teachings, knowledge of Valencian will no longer be a requirement for teachers and will be valued as merit.”
The intention, Pérez Llorca pointed out, is that the entire content of the law can be applied from the 2025-2026 academic year, although some issues will already come into force for the next year.
The other major legislative change proposed is the Concord Law that Vox spokesperson, José María Llanos, has presented. This norm provides for “recognizing all victims of violence, social, political, terrorism or ideological persecution besieged in the Valencian Community during the period between 1931 and up to the present day.”
Llanos has justified the temporary period to include “the recognition of the crimes of ETA and other leftist groups such as the Frap and the Grapo” and “victims of the revolutionary violence of the Popular Front.” Corrected by the fact that the Popular Front did not exist until ’36, the Vox spokesperson did not hesitate to point out that what existed in ’31 “was not a democracy.”
“In the face of the false democratic memory that only remembered some and forgot some,” the intention, explained the Vox parliamentarian, is to “reparate all the victims” and guarantee the inventoried heritage remains, be they crosses, boxes or singular monuments. Llanos has assured that exhumations and aid will not stop, but will be expanded to the entire political spectrum.
The changes in Valencian public television are also significant. If the new rule proposed this Thursday by PP and Vox is approved (and they have a majority for it) it will be allowed to make part of the programming in Spanish. This is how Pérez Llorca has justified it so that in Spanish-speaking areas they “understand” a television that is “for all Valencians.”
At a political level, the new rule also includes the merger of the current entities that make up television (the Corporation and the Society) into one and changes the election system of the new board of directors that will be elected by absolute majority if there is no agreement on the camera. A change that is also introduced in the process of electing the director of the Anti-Fraud Agency.
The new television council will be made up of a total of eight members, a smaller number than the current one. And the great novelty lies in the form of election: seven of these people will be chosen by the parliamentary groups of Les Corts and one by the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FVMP). In addition, the opposition exams planned to stabilize workers are suspended.
