Representatives of the PP, PSPV, Compromís and Ens Uneix, in addition to the unions CC.OO, UGT and AVA-ASAJA, participated this morning in a rally to demand that Valencian Civil Law be incorporated into the Spanish Constitution. The meeting, called by the Valencian Juristes Association, had the objective of putting pressure on the PP and PSOE in Congress to accept the Compromís amendment to take advantage of the reform of article 49 of the Constitution for the "diminished" terms to incorporate into Valencian Civil Law .
The president of Juristes Valencianas, José Ramón Chirivella, recalled that this week is key because "the amendment of the Valencian people will be presented so that our Statute and our Civil Law are recognized." In this regard, he has pointed out that "if the PP and the PSOE vote against what they will do is betray the Valencian people." "I trust that this time the Valencian people will be listened to, it is not tolerable that we are ignored again while other autonomies have their own right despite not having stories of Furs like the Valencians."
Laura Chulià, deputy spokesperson of the PP in the Courts; Joan Baldoví, trustee of Compromís; Vicent Soler, former socialist councilor and Natalia Enguix, from Ens Uneix, have agreed on the importance of recognizing the Valencian Civil Law in the Constitution. However, the representatives of the PP and the PSPV have not been able to confirm what will be the meaning of the vote of their representatives in Congress before the Compromise amendment.
Galicia, the Basque Country, Navarra, Aragon, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands have their own civil law legislation. Valencian civil law was recovered in the reform of the Valencian Statute of 2006, promoted by the Government of Francisco Camps (PP) - with the support of the PSOE -, but it was lost after the executive of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (PSOE) appealed before the TC (a resource that Mariano Rajoy later maintained as president). On April 28, 2016, the Constitutional Court declared the unconstitutionality of the Valencian law on the Valencian Matrimonial Economic Regime. Later the same thing would happen with the shared custody law and the Formalized De facto Unions law.
The Valencian Community has therefore been without its own civil law for seven years, despite having had one of the oldest in the State: the Valencians had their own jurisdictions from the 13th century, with Jaume I, until their abolition with the New Plant Decrees that promulgated by the first Bourbon in Spain, Philip V, in 1707. It was the great punishment they received after the defeat in the battle of Almansa and that still today, 314 years later, marks their laws.
Civil law is what allows autonomous communities to legislate everyday aspects such as the separation of property in a marriage or shared custody of children in the event of separation. All those that had their own jurisdictions when the Constitution came into force enjoy that jurisdiction, except the Valencians.
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