The Association of Valencian Lawyers has organized this Sunday a rally in the Plaza de la Virgen in Valencia to denounce the "absolute discrimination" of the Government and the Congress of Deputies towards the "Valencian agenda of social needs", with emphasis on the recognition of the Valencian civil law to "end years of reduced self-government" of the Valencian Community.
In this way, dozens of people have protested under the slogan 'Valencians, dignitat: yes' to require fair financing, the recognition of Valencian civil law and progress in the Mediterranean Corridor, as well as to oppose the "very worrying situation". of the Tajo-Segura Transfer or the Cercanías service.
Among the attendees, I found the representative of Compromís in the Congress of Deputies, Joan Baldoví; the deputy of Podemos in Congress Rosa Medel; the president of Les Corts Valencianes, Enric Morera; the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó; the vice mayor of Valencia Sandra Gómez; the former Minister of Finance and the Economic Model, Vicent Soler, the deputy spokesperson for the PP in the Valencia City Council and the deputy secretary of the PPCV, María José Ferrer, among others.
The president of Juristes Valencians, José Ramón Chirivella, has denounced that Valencians are "deeply upset" with the "attitude of the politicians" of the Congress of Deputies and the Government "regarding the Valencian agenda of social needs." "This situation has been aggravated from these seven years with a very relevant loss of self-government, after some sentences in 2016 annulled the Valencian civil law provided for in the Statute," he denounced.
Along the same lines, he has lamented that "nothing has been done for the Valencian civil law for three years", and has defended that, if it were included in the reform of article 49 that is currently being processed in Congress of the Deputies, the Valencians 'would have a more direct and useful right to more family than six other autonomous communities in Spain, or it would be possible to make changes to the current inheritance system'.
In his opinion, "although the state PSOE and PP come a lot to Valencia, they are not doing enough" and "they have not changed their criteria" to include Valencian civil law in the Constitution. At this point, Chirivella has made ugly the 'president' of the Generalitat Valenciana, Ximo Puig, who, "after seven years of cut self-government, is not pressing much more energetically in front of the Government."
On the other hand, Chirivella has criticized that in the Valencian Community “there is a huge State investment deficit in the Community, especially in the province of Alicante, with an out-of-date financial model from 2014 that no one had ever corrected; We are in a very worrying situation regarding the railway infrastructures, with Cercanías that make it impossible to move to the south of the province of Alicante and the north of Castellón, and the Mediterranean Corridor will never end”.
"We're trapped"
For his part, Joan Baldoví has indicated that the “easy and quick” solution to include Valencian civil law in the reform of the Constitution is “to vote for the amendment presented by Compromís”. "Then we will have the capacity to recover our civil rights," he asserted, remarking that "what he doesn't like" are "many photos, but few votes." "What the deputies in Congress have to do is vote as Valencians and vote for the Valencian civil law so that there is a possibility that we Valencians will recover it", he added.
Vicent Soler has pointed out that the "reason" for this concentration is "very simple": "Much progress has been made in civil, individual, social and collective rights, but in this process of obtaining new rights there are some pending issues". "In the case of the Valencians, it costs little money and a lot of political will to achieve equity in the treatment of historical rights with Valencian civil law," he declared.
"This is a constitutional anomaly because it cannot be that some autonomous communities have rights and the Valencian Community does not," he criticized, while stressing that the constitutional reform "needs sufficient majorities." “We are trapped, but we Valencians want to solve entrenched problems that make no sense, not even from constitutional philosophy”, he concluded.
“Totally intolerable”
Likewise, Joan Ribó has considered "totally intolerable" that "the two big parties at the state level -PSOE and PP- count one thing and when they reach the Congress of Deputies they do another". "It's enough that when people say one thing, when they pass the Hoya de Buñol, they change their mind, and in Madrid they say something else," he criticized.
Finally, Sandra Gómez has affirmed that the recognition of Valencian civil law is "a matter of equality". "This is an opportunity to make a great pact between all the national parties", he proposed, while concluding that the Valencian Community "does not want to be more than anyone, but it does recognize the Valencian civil law to couple the new laws to real needs.
