The Government’s request to the European Union to include Catalan, Basque and Galician in the official language regime of the European Union and the announcement by the President of Congress, Francina Armengol, that these co-official languages will be admitted to the Chamber Baja has aroused indignation in the Government of Carlos Mazón and the Popular Party by leaving Valencian out of its list, which has the same status as a co-official language.

According to the Statute of Autonomy in its article 6, “the language of the Valencian Community is Valencian”. This does not happen in the Balearic Islands, where Catalan is referred to. Not listing the Valencian means, as the PP deputy Esteban González Pons defended in the same congressional chamber, risking that in Congress and the European Parliament they recognize “that the Valencian is Catalan” and not respecting the Statute or the Constitution.

The Consell will announce this Friday the measures that it will take in an institutional declaration to defend “the language, culture and signs of identity” of the Valencian Community, but there are already voices from the Government of Carlos Mazón that have risen up.

The first was the Minister for the Environment, the popular Salomé Pradas, the only one in the entire Consell who was sworn in in Valencian, accusing Pedro Sánchez of despising Valencian to “please his partners”. “I hope you rectify this disregard and contempt for the language itself and hallmark of the Valencian Community,” he wrote on social networks, recalling the literalness of the Statute.

The president of the Valencia Provincial Council, Vicente Mompó, also spoke along the same lines, who, in Valencian, added that “contempt” to the list of demands. «There will be those who say that it is only a symbol, but no, it is our language.

Sánchez does not respect the Valencian Community and has shown it in the financing, in the Mediterranean Corridor. and once again, belittling the Valencian”, he assured on his social networks

With the arrival of the Government of the Generalitat and the majority in the Cortes with the support of Vox, the PP had already announced the recovery of the Identity Signs Law, repealed by the Botànic, which strengthened Valencian against Catalan, something that from Education it is also intended to be done in the classroom despite the fact that the Valencian Academy of Language, the statutory body that regulates it, defends philological unity.