The 64th edition of the Aplec del Puig was held this Sunday, the last of October as is tradition, in the town of Horta Nord where Jaume I concluded his conquest of Valencia. A meeting called by the Comisión Aplec del Puig, made up of the Bloc d’Estudiants Agermanats (BEA), Bloc y País (more-compromising sovereignist current), Decidim, Escola Valenciana, Esquerra Republicana del País Valenciana, Intersindical Valenciana, el Jovent Republican, Platform for Language and Free People.
Several leaders of Més-Compromís participated in the meeting, such as the trustee in Corts Valencianes, Joan Baldoví; the deputies in Congress, Àgueda Micó and Alberto Ibáñez, the councilor and deputy spokesperson in the Valencia City Council, Papi Robles or the new general secretary of Més Compromís, Amparo Piquer. Íñigo Errejón, deputy for Sumar and Más País, also participated in the meeting.
The meeting, which seeks to become the starting point for a Valencian sovereignty project, is according to the organization, “the oldest and most forceful act of national affirmation in the Valencian Country.”
At the meeting, Més and Joves-PV have awarded the awards to the associations awarded this year, Soterranya, which with the ‘Bicis para todos’ program distributes bicycles to people in need so they can move around the city, and Fonèvol, a feminist association which aims to promote the participation of women in the Moors and Christians festivals of Alcoi under equal conditions.
In addition, the Més de Honor award for political career in Valencianism has gone to Josep Castell from Castellón and Carme Jorques from Sebastián living in Alicante. Castell, a militant from La Plana, was the founder of Esquerra Independent de Castelló, while he has participated in the LGTBI struggle to found the first Valencian movement to defend LGTBI rights.
Carme Jorques has received the award for “the tireless work of expanding the Valencian project in the southern regions through art and culture.” Thus, she has become a highly recognized artist for political Valencianism, which has already awarded her the Miquel Grau de Compromís per Alacant award in 2022.
