Vicent Mompó tries to resurrect the Valencian soul of the PP in the face of the suffocation of Vox
With Carlos Mazón's PP overwhelmed by the management of the Dana and pressured by Vox on every move, the president of the Valencia Provincial Council, Vicent Mompó, is trying to revive his party's most pro-Valencian spirit and put the defense of Valencian on the agenda of the PP in the Valencian Community.
Mayor of Gavara (in the Valencian-speaking region of Ribera), Mompó and his team are aware that a significant percentage of their electorate speaks their native language and that Valencian is a cherished symbol of identity; a view that not all the political parties in his party understand and share.
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Furthermore, Mompó's discourse doesn't fit well with the centrality and uniformity demanded by Vox in each of the Mazón government's political measures and initiatives. In fact, in recent months, clashes between the president of the provincial council and the leaders of the far-right party have been constant, especially with the parliamentary ombudsman, José María Llanos, and with the Speaker of the Catalan Parliament, Llanos Massó. The latest instance was over the use of Valencian on the public television channel À Punt.
However, Mompó knows that from the Provincial Council—where this pressure from Vox does not exist, since its votes are not necessary to govern the provincial institution—he can weave that more identitarian (and also anti-Catalan) discourse that has given the PP such good electoral results in the past.
The pro-Valencian and anti-Catalan discourse has given the PP good electoral results.This explains the Popular Party leader's intention to open a philological debate from the institution he presides over and promote this "middle path of consensus and respect that excludes neither normativists nor populists." A commitment to "the most distinctive forms" of the Valencian Community but, in principle, without deviating from the regulations of the Valencian Academy of Language.
The first of the works for reflection on current regulations, which was launched yesterday in the new collection promoted by the Valencia Provincial Council (Biblioteca de Filología Valenciana), is an amendment to the AVL accentuation system. In it, its author, Abelard Saragossà, attacks a regulatory complexity that, according to him, alienates language users. The second of the works, incidentally, will address the reasons for eliminating the Valencian accent, another issue that goes against the AVL's criteria. Thus, it seems clear that these first two studies question the Academy's normative criteria.
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Beyond the normative questioning, the objective is clear. "We want to say 'vacacions ' instead of 'vacances' , 'arreplegar' instead of 'recollegar ', 'gasto' instead of 'despesa ', because these words embody our way of being. Valencian belongs to the people, and it is with them that we should walk," Mompó stated, as an example of the Valencian language the Provincial Council wants to promote.
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