PP and Vox have no intention of drawing blood with the educational law that they both agreed on to change the linguistic model in Valencian schools. The parliamentary groups presented the amendments separately, which presaged a rupture in the unity of action of both parties, but yesterday they made clear their firm intention (barring last minute changes) to support each other so that the other’s amendments go ahead.
Vox is even willing to support the PP proposal that demands respect for “official regulations.” An important nuance since the initial text spoke of “Valencian linguistic regulations.” The PP yesterday defended this change as a boost to the regulations of the Valencian Academy of Language (AVL), after a few months of confrontation with this institution which, according to the statute of autonomy, “is the regulatory institution of the Valencian language.”
It is precisely the statutory shield that prevents Vox from rebelling against its partners’ amendment. Yesterday, its ombudsman in Les Corts, José María Llanos, assured after the meeting of spokespersons that his group “respects the law”, although he does not like it and does not give up having a sufficient majority to remove the AVL’s powers in the future. Llanos is a firm defender of the Puig rules contrary to the unity of the language, but he is also aware of how far Vox can go.
From his words it is deduced that his group will not hinder the approval of this recognition of official regulations. And both the far-right formation and the popular ones committed yesterday to supporting all the proposed changes.
Both are committed to recovering unity of action in the parliamentary debate and avoiding fissures, after staging a certain distance in the presentation of the amendments (yesterday they reiterated the idea that they are different parliamentary groups. “I hope that the PP supports our proposals,” said Llanos. ; “We are going to support them and hope that Vox supports ours,” responded the PP ombudsman, Miguel Barrachina.
Among the amendments of the PP – in addition to the one that establishes that “textbooks and curricular materials must respect the linguistic denomination provided for in article 6 of the Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community and must follow the official linguistic regulations” -, there are some more interesting.
The popular ones recover the C1 linguistic requirement for education inspectors, an obligation that was eliminated in the initial text and that is included claiming that it does not make much sense that those in charge of supervising the teaching of the Valencian subject did not have a minimum knowledge Of the same. The PP also wants the vehicular languages ??program (in which language each subject is taught) to be decided by the school council.
For its part, Vox demands that, in Primary, that “during the entire stage, the area of ??Mathematics or Knowledge of the Natural, Social and Cultural Environment be taught in the base language chosen by the student’s legal representatives.” Both agree on the freedom of students to take exams for non-linguistic subjects in the language of their choice.
The debate on the entire Educational Freedom Law will take place on the 29th in plenary session along with two other laws of the so-called “reformist agenda” of PP and Vox. However, the two groups have chosen to postpone until after the European elections of 9-J the debate on the Law of Concord that equalizes all the victims of the Second Republic, the Civil War, Francoism and democracy. A regulation that the opposition considers whitewashes the dictatorship and that has received reproaches from the Government of Spain and even the UN.
