The PP continues working on an Identity Signs Law, one of Carlos Mazón’s electoral promises that has not yet seen the light, while Vox hopes for an agreement with its government partners to, from the negotiation, approve a regulation on the symbols and denominations that satisfy both parties. Those of Santiago Abascal have always been harsher than the popular ones when it comes to speaking out on issues such as language or the authority of the Valencian Academy of Language (AVL).
Despite this, sources from Vox admitted to this newspaper yesterday that the Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) on identity cards presented by a group of citizens from the ultra regionalism environment and which claims to prohibit the use of the term País Valencian or to defend the unity of the language is complicated to apply legally.
However, in his intervention before the media, the new Vox ombudsman, José María Llanos, was cautious and assured that “there are things about the ILP that we share and others we don’t” and gave a clue: “Vox supports everything.” what can be done within the law, there is no doubt.” For his part, the PP spokesperson, Miguel Barrachina, once again hid behind the fact that he had not yet “read the initiative”, while reiterating his group’s intention to prepare its own legislative proposal.
The proposal – presented, among others, by the agitator and former member of Vox Juan García Sentandreu – calls for penalizing those entities, associations or parties that use the term País Valencià or defend that Valencian and Catalan are the same language. As this newspaper explained, the text, which has been admitted for processing by the Les Corts Valencianes Table chaired by Vox and with a majority of the members of the Consell (PP and Vox), demands that “the Generalitat Valenciana can request the suspension of the activities of those associations or private entities whose purpose is contrary to this law and, after the corresponding contradictory administrative file, decree the definitive closure”. Furthermore, it is indicated that these entities could not receive public aid.
At Vox, they are not very clear about the legality of this proposal, which among other things corners the Valencian Academy of Language or calls for suspending public officials who fail to comply with the rule on identity signs. The ultra formation is against AVL, but admits that the Academy is still protected by the Statute of Autonomy that establishes it as “the normative institution of the Valencian language.”
For this reason, they point out, Vox is seeking, together with the PP, an Identity Signs law that covers its political approaches, but without violating legality. It will not be easy between the two to reach a point of agreement because the PP is not as harsh in its approaches as its partners in the Consell who have made the cultural war one of their workhorses of this legislature. It is no coincidence that the Voxista formation claimed during the negotiations to form a government the Culture portfolio held by former bullfighter Vicente Barrera.
Proposals such as homologating the Valencian titles of the secessionist entities are joined by decisions by the Barrera department to leave without aid all those entities that they consider “Catalanist” or, as has been seen these days, cancel magazine subscriptions in Valencian in those town councils where they are assigned the area of ??Culture and power of influence.
