The new Vice President and Minister of Culture of the Valencian Government, Vicente Barrera (Vox), has made clear in the transfer of portfolios his intention to give visibility and promotion to bullfighting, although he has not detailed how. In a brief speech, after collecting the powers from the hands of the two outgoing Compromís leaders, Barrera has vindicated his past as a bullfighter.
“I come from the world of culture, from the world of art, and my activity has been silenced, forgotten, ignored for too many years, we have been the Cinderella of culture and for many years we have even been persecuted and mistreated by the administration itself, which had the obligation to defend and support us,” Barrera criticized.
Along these lines, and after assuring that she is going to ask her predecessors for advice, she has defended her commitment to “treating all culture equally, without knowing or thinking about where it comes from”. Barrera, before making his appointment official, already applauded on twitter the decision of the Borriana City Council to eliminate the subscription to magazines considered “Catalanist”.
In this regard, the Minister of Culture has indicated this Thursday that “from Valencia we have to fight to promote the singular culture of our Valencian Community and the singular one that unites us with the rest of the Spaniards, which is Spanish culture, not with others that are very loved by us, but that belong to other autonomous communities”. “But Valencian is spoken here and there is a difference that we are going to highlight”, he said.
The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has also participated in the transfer of portfolios, who, when asked by journalists, has emphasized that the world of bullfighting “cannot be a little sister, as it has been unfairly during these years.”
After the transfer of portfolios in the First Vice Presidency, that of the Second Vice President and Councilor for Equality, Social Services and Housing, Susana Camarero, has made her speech a plea against gender violence. She recalled that she has been fighting against this “scourge that kills so many women” since 2004 (when she worked on the Law on Comprehensive Protection Measures against Gender Violence).
Camarero has recognized that, in this area, “much remains to be done”, starting with awareness and prevention. In this line, sources from the Ministry have made it clear that, although the resources to staff the courts against gender violence correspond to Justice (in the hands of Vox), it will be the Ministry of Equality that draws the line in this matter. Some guidelines that the minister, as secretary of the Consell, will mark the entire government in a matter that they consider “transversal” to all the policies of the Consell. From the environment of the second vice president they point out that, as has been made clear in her first speech, the line is clear and the PP is not going to give an iota in this matter despite the reluctance that its government partner may show.
In addition, Camarero, a historic member of the PP who landed in the Valencian Government after passing through Les Corts, the Congress, the Senate and the Government of Spain, has also opted to respect “the freedom to love whomever each one chooses” and advance rights for LGTBI people.
