It is hard to believe that, at this point and after years of mobilization by a large part of civil society – yesterday it was the Consell Valencià de Cultura – the Corts Valencianes have not been able to appoint the regional deputies responsible for defending in the General Courts the constitutional reform necessary to recover the Valencian Civil Law. It is not that the PSPV — which accepted the appeal before the Constitutional Court promoted by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and that blew up part of the 2006 statutory reform — nor the PP — which under Francisco Camps made the defense of Valencian legislation a banner — have moved much in the direction demanded by the Association of Valencian Jurists led by the tireless José Ramón Chirivella. But, just days before the deadline given by the president of the Congress, Francina Armengol, here it seems that the matter has been completely abandoned.
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Juanfran Pérez Llorca’s party, which had this claim as one of its main hallmarks, seems to have given in to pressure from Vox who, as is well known, is not very supportive of the autonomous communities recovering elements of their own identity, whether culture or the laws of their civil code, which curiously other autonomous communities do maintain. But there is something even worse: the PP seems to have entered that scenario so liked by parties when they do not know how to justify themselves, that of delaying processes. Because only in this way can it be understood that the Advisory Commission on Valencian Civil Law led by the Minister of Justice, Nuria Martínez, has been reactivated. A forum that already existed and that already spoke in favor of the statutory reform route in 2017. Valencians have an amazing ability to get stuck in “time loops.”
But we should not be too surprised either, because this is not an isolated case of what we are talking about. The Generalitat Valenciana has not yet set a date for the delivery of the 9 d’Octubre awards — which were to recognize those who worked during the flood — and which were postponed due to an orange alert. The Corts, moreover, by imposition of Vox and under the complacency of the PP, decided not to commemorate April 25, an anniversary that recalls the defeat of Almansa against Philip V, the same monarch who ended the Valencian Furs, that is, much of the political autonomy enjoyed by Valencians, with their own Civil Law.
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It should be remembered that a people begins to lose its self-government the day its representatives stop considering it important. And that is where we are.
The curious thing is that six other autonomous communities — Aragón, Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Navarre, Basque Country, and Galicia — do have their own civil code, recovered during the transition; but we, the Valencians, still do not have it. When we had it, the Constitutional Court struck it down; and now, recovering that competence seems to matter very little to our parliamentarians. It should be remembered that a people begins to lose its self-government the day its representatives stop considering it important. And that is where we are.
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