If there is a Valencian institution where Vox feels most comfortable, it is in the Corts Valencianes. While their minority in the Valencian Government (three councilors compared to the PP’s 7) and in city councils such as Valencia, forces them to follow the PP, in Parliament they can set the pace from the Presidency of the institution that popular gave him to tie support to the investiture of Carlos Mazón.
Also the hard profiles of the representatives of the extreme right in the Valencian Parliament – with the president (who calls herself president) Llanos Massó and the ombudsman, José María Llanos – contribute to imposing certain symbolic issues on the PP, as could be seen yesterday . Following a document presented by Vox, the regional Parliament decided to eliminate the Guillem Agulló Prize, which was awarded in memory of the young anti-fascist murdered by a group of Nazis in 1993. The award valued the work of people and initiatives against xenophobia, racism or hate crimes.
The award was created as a result of an institutional declaration in memory of Agulló that was signed in 2016 by both PP and Ciudadanos (Vox was not represented). Eight years later, both parties ignored it and alleged that the composition of the chamber had changed and that putting the name of the young man from Burjassot on the award was “a unilateral decision” by the previous president of Les Corts.
The Vox spokesperson was very explicit: “The opposition insists on keeping things the same as when they governed and they have not realized that they are in the opposition. Our position is to change the things that we consider are not right, that is why they voted for us.”
For this reason, they have not hesitated to modify the formula to deliver the recognitions on March 8, Women’s Day. Previously, each party could propose up to two names for recognition. Now only one is given, which is voted on, which makes it easier for the chosen name to be liked by the new parliamentary majority made up of PP and Vox.
A change in the regulations that was made last week in the Les Corts Equality Commission that was improvised after the ordinary plenary session, and after Compromís warned that they had not begun to prepare anything to commemorate 8-M. In that commission, both the Valencian coalition and the PSPV showed their rejection of the change approved by Vox and PP because they understood that the proposed women did not have to “compete” in a vote – which, in addition, would always win, the favorite of the conservative forces. -.
The popular ombudsman, Miguel Barrachina, could not say whether the proposal to change the way of choosing women deserving of such recognition had come from his group and limited himself to pointing out that it seemed fine to him.
Given yesterday’s examples, the socialist spokesperson in the regional Parliament, José Muñoz, denounced the breaking of “consensus” of the extreme right with the “endorsement” of Carlos Mazón’s PP. But these two have not been the only two changes introduced in parliamentary life that denote that it is Vox that leads the way in the institution.
The most controversial was the change of the institutional banner to avoid the classification of “sexist violence” in the concentrations of rejection of murders due to gender violence. The cultural battle does not stop.
