My admirer Miquel Nadal publishes in the latest edition of the Lletraferit magazine an interesting encyclical about the lament for the Valencian right. It focuses on the Valencian Regional Right of the thirties and on the figure of its leader Lluís Lúcia. To add to a whole saga of Valencian prohoms, patriots and committed to this land. Let these letters be another stone to rediscover an underweight and much needed Valencian political tradition. And to take good note of all those who call for the inevitable refoundation of the Valencian right, strengthening its autochthonous and autonomous discourse.
Doing so a key historical memory exercise to delve into our own political idiosyncrasy. A whole branch of brave and fundamental political thought and action, highly recommended for all those who simplify the Valencian political system between red and blue, between new and old, between pros and cons. A commitment to centered and central Valencianism from the conservative riverside, shaping a cultured Valencian right, formed and rooted in our land and its people. A whole retinue of Valencian lineages, representatives of a political tradition that should have crystallized in our home. An option of what could have followed - from its public and organized presence there towards the beginning of the twentieth century, going through the turbulent thirties and reaching the democratic transition in the seventies - the reformist, humanist, moderate and constructive
Lluís Lúcia himself, Ignasi Villalonga, Joaquim Reig, Joaquim Maldonado, Martí Domínguez, Muñoz Peirats, José Luis Barceló, Ruiz Monrabal, Manuel Broseta or Vicent Miquel i Diego. Ignasi Villalonga, banker, Catholic, member of the Valencian Regional Right and deputy for CEDA. The same man who piloted the Bank of Valencia until it became the best reference of the Valencian financial bourgeoisie, a fundamental instrument for the local industry, weaving a string of complicities in our civil society. A more pragmatic and possibilistic conservative option, anchored in reality and in agrarian and exporting interests, with the democrat Lluís Lúcia as leader, who never ended up fitting in well with the Francoist and centralist ideology of radial Spain.
Or Joaquim Maldonado and his meritorious task of modernizing the Valencian economy and his Stock Exchange, highlighting his Valencian contribution. From the Valencian Regional Right and then in the foundation of the Democratic Union, from the last "colletazos" of the Franco regime and in the exciting time of transition, Maldonado represents the democratic and deeply Valencian conviction par excellence. From his civic experience at the Mercantile University, his innate vocation to be tolerant, dialogical and working towards the socio-economic advancement of the Valencian people was evident; and in addition, I contributed to focus and mature the Valencianist message by betting, like the inaugural list of these stripes, to recover a renowned Valencianist political tradition, perhaps the only one we have had.
