One of the activities of the Vila-real correllengua, in a provided image.
Vox focuses its particular crusade in Castellón and its province against publications and initiatives in Valencian that take advantage of the official regulations that the Ultra group considers to be Catalan, against entities that classify them as Catalan and, in particular, against books with an LGTBI theme. This Thursday it became known that in the city council of Castelló de la Plana, where the PP governs with the Ultra formation, the community group Vox will ask the councilor for culture, María España, to allow books with LGTBI and diversity themes, sexual information in children’s books remove and youth department of the city libraries. Vox spokesman and family councilor Alberto Vidal justified the decision, in his opinion, with the need to “respect the law” and end the “indoctrination” that these books cause.
In parallel, Vox de Vila-real wants to “put an end” to Corellengua’s school activity because it is “nonsense” that “indoctrinates children in schools about the unity of the language in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community”. ” . With this argument, Irene Herrero, Vox councilor in the Vila-real City Council, governed by the PSPV-PSOE, has called for the termination of this initiative in defense of the Valencian, which, like in many other Valencian cities, is carried out throughout the school year, in the schools of this city in Castellón.
It was the councilor of the Compromís for Castelló, Ignasi Garcia, who denounced this Thursday the “censorship” that, in his opinion, Vox wants to carry out in the provincial capital. “First it was Burriana, then Vinaròs and now Castelló, the right-wing governments want to end the diversity of our society, they want to censor us and tell us how we must love, think and speak,” he said in collected statements carried by Europa Press.
Garcia recalled that Javier Torres, current government advisor to the mayor of Castellón, Begoña Carrasco, of the PP, was a spokesman for Christian Lawyers and had already tried to censor LGTBI people last year with the complaint filed against the former city council of Castellón. Books to Apply Culture, Vero Ruiz, by Compromís. “A complaint that was even dismissed by the Supreme Court,” the spokesman added.
Correllengua, in turn, is a festive activity that has been taking place in Vila-real for 30 years and in the current format with animation since 2015. This year, with the help of Acció Cultural del País Valencià (ACPV) and the Department of Normalització Lingüística, it has returned to commemorate the entry of James I into the city of Valencia and the birth of the Valencian people, as reported by municipal sources. The flame, the symbolic and cohesive element of this initiative, arrived in the schools of Vila-Real this week with the support of various organizations. This Friday, the Correllengua, together with the Xarxa theater group, will hold a civic event in the Plaza Mayor.
“The children of Vila-real are not second-class Catalans, but Vila-real, Valencians and first-class Spaniards,” says Irene Herrero of Vox, who has announced that her group will contact the Ministry of Education the PP, “to see how “It can act to stop this nonsense, be it with the Education Inspectorate or with any other instrument of its competence.” The Vox city council has demanded that the Vila-real city council, governed by the PSPV, “stop once and for all “To be a necessary collaborator in this attack on our region and educational neutrality.”
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“It is unacceptable that pan-Catalan entities that attack our language, our culture and our history and want to annex our region to these non-existent Catalan lands, with the support of the City Council, invade our children’s schools and turn them into centers of linguistic and political indoctrination,” he explained, referring to ACPV.
For her part, the councilor for linguistic normalization of Vila-real, the socialist Noelia Samblás, expressed surprise at the complaint of the councilor Vox, “because she considered it phenomenal in the last legislative period; “We understand that he now has to follow his party’s instructions.” He thanked the schools for the good reception of the campaign, “which have once again shown their love for our language, our culture and our traditions.”
In just three months, since July, the far-right party in Borriana – where it governs together with the PP and heads, among other things, the culture department – has censored five magazines in Catalan (two of them children’s magazines and another musical) on the website, citing the reasons that they apologize for independence. The city’s municipal library will no longer receive copies of the five publications from 2024, once the subscription agreement signed by the previous government team (PSPV-Compromís) is finalized. Last week, the same city councilor for culture of Borriana, Jesús Albiol, once again raised spirits in the library by defending the removal of LGTBI-themed books from the children’s and youth section, as they exposed minors to “pornographic and scandalous.”
This week and in a provincial jump to the town of Vinaròs, in the north of the province, Vox, in opposition, vetoed in the institutes another book on sexual diversity and in Valencian, The Pink Triangle, for its “sexual content” and for “incitement to Drug consumption”. The book chronicles a teenager’s discovery of his sexual option and was included in the reading list for ESO second-year Valencian students. The city council, governed by a coalition of PSPV-Compromís, defends “professionalism” and “didactic criteria” for the selection of course readings. Some readings about which schools “have autonomy”, as the Ministry of Education recalls.