The President of the Valencian Parliament, Llanos Massó, boasted that her Vox party was the one that had revived the debate on the normative Valencian, which has not been a cause for confrontation in the Valencian Community for years. The far-right leader announced on her social network account this Saturday that if the “debate” about the Valencian had not taken place. “Some weren’t so clear, but Vox does its job,” he adds.
The message, published in Spanish, describes Vox as “completely necessary”. “Only when he arrives does he begin to question what Vox is very clear about: Valencian is not Catalan and authentic Valencian is that of the Puig standards.” Some weren’t so clear, but Vox is doing its job,” Massó wrote. In this way, the President of the Cortes despises the Statute of the Valencian Community, which stipulates that the Academy of the Valencian Language is the normative institution of the Valencian language, and it does not defend the norms to which Massó alludes and which are extolled by another organization , which duly bets on the linguistic secessionism of Valencian towards Catalan.
Does anyone have any doubts as to whether @vox_es Wouldn’t this debate have been opened if I hadn’t been in the Valencian government?
VOX is absolutely necessary, only with its introduction one begins to wonder what Vox is very clear about: Valencian is not Catalan and authentic Valencian is… pic.twitter.com/RUV9qvA7Y4— Llanos Masso (@LlanosMasso) August 26, 2023
Llanos Massó accompanies his message with the image of information from EL PAÍS on how the government of Carlos Mazón, to which Vox belongs, has confirmed that the ultra-right has “freedom” to choose the rules that it uses in its institutional communications and applying with them This has challenged the normative Valencian.
The message of the second authority in the Valencian Community has prompted an immediate reaction from both the Valencian Socialists and the Compromís, who have accused Massó of not complying with the statutes, which he observed when taking the oath of office. “The language rules of the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua will be binding in all public administrations of the Valencian Community,” reads Article 41.
Socialist spokeswoman in the Valencian Parliament, Rebeca Torró, believes that Massó’s idea of violating the statute requires the President of the Generalitat to say whether he “intends at some point to bring order to these atrocities”. “The Socialists will not allow any attack on our language and we will ask the President of Les Corts for explanations: her actions are unworthy of her position,” Torró stressed.
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The socialist spokesman also criticized the presence of an education adviser “who proudly describes himself as uneducated and defends Vox’s atrocities using Valencian”. The head of the Ministry of Education, the popular José Antonio Rovira, confirmed this Thursday that the Ministry of Agriculture in the hands of Vox “is free to choose its rules” and to write a non-regulatory Valencian with misspellings.
Massó’s position was also criticized by his predecessor, former President of the Valencian Parliament Enric Morera (Compromís), who made him ugly because he wanted to “divide the Valencian people through unscientific statements”. “The dignity of the office is not compatible with a lack of culture,” she emphasized and at the same time recalled that she herself “sworn to the office and adhered to the statutes and thus to the AVL”. In addition, Compromís has lodged a complaint with the Ombudsman about the use of Valencian in the Generalitat’s social network profiles, as this ensures that the Ministry of Agriculture uses the language “outside all linguistic regulations”.