This Tuesday, the president of Les Corts Valencianes, Llanos Massó, collected the report of the Valencian Academy of Language (AVL) for 2022. She did so with a serious and visibly uncomfortable face. The Vox leader did not take long to hand the copy to one of her collaborators before having a brief conversation with the president of the regulatory institution, Verònica Cantó, who did not fail to maintain her perennial smile during the institutional meeting. .
In fact, the president of the AVL has not erased it from her face when answering journalists and has at all times avoided entering into controversy. She has admitted that there are issues in the Consell’s proposal on the uses of Valencian that do not seem right to her – she has questioned that the regional government wants to impose these uses on the “linguistic authority” itself – but she has not avoided splashing puddles. She has reiterated that the Statute makes it clear that the AVL is “the only linguistic authority” and that each party “has its ideology.”
An authority that was followed, moments later, to the surprise of many, by the president of Les Corts, who had bucked the media outside the Parliament’s Hall of Mirrors where the presentation of the memory had taken place. There, Llanos Massó has indicated that the current legislation will be complied with and as an example she has admitted that the institutional accounts are written in normative Valencian, another thing, she has stated, are the personal profiles.
“Today, the Academy is recognized in the Statute of Autonomy, but small steps can be taken to get closer to the Valencian spoken in Valencia, such as the validation of the titles of Lo Rat Penat or the RACV (Royal Academy of Culture Valenciana) that Vox will ask for,” he noted. The proposal for homologation of titles has not yet been debated in Les Corts and the PP is not very clear that it could be feasible, despite the electoral promises it made at the time.
However, Llanos Massó has insisted that his party “is going to try to modify the current legislation to prevent the unity of the language from becoming a reality.” For this reason, he has made it clear that his objective “in the medium or long term” or when the Valencians allow it will be to change the Statute. Minutes before, the Vox ombudsman, José María Llanos, had already pointed out that one of the worst things the PP did in the past was to shield the AVL in the Statute.
