The convening of a contest to elect the Administrative Directorate of the Valencian Corporació de Mitjans de Comunicació (CVMC) has deleted Valencian from its requirements. As Escola Valenciana denounced, the contest to choose the person responsible, among other things, for directing and coordinating the departments in charge of economic management, contracting, human resources and legal advice of Valencian television (À Punt) has left the demand for Knowing the two official languages of the Valencian Community is a merit.
As La Vanguardia has been able to find out, in the bases of the 2017 call to elect the same position, the Valencian was considered a requirement. Thus, the sixth point required "accrediting knowledge, oral and written, of the two official languages of the Valencian Community". A requirement, indicated the bases that would have to be accredited by means of the certificate of the Qualifying Board of Coneixements de Valencià.
On this occasion, knowledge of the vehicular language of public television will not be an impediment to applying for this position. Sources from the Corporation explained to this newspaper that the change of criteria has been made given that it is a contract "for very specific management personnel" that requires "very extensive knowledge" and for which it is required to prove at least three years experience in levels of responsibility in the field of economic management and/or control, public sector contracting and human resources.
The same sources recall that to write the bases of the 2022 call, they have been set in the last calls of different departments of the Valencian Government such as Finance, Equality or Agriculture in which the own language does not appear as a requirement or even as a merit. In fact, they argue that only in two calls for Housing is the Valencian as a merit.
Certainly, knowledge of Valencian is not a requirement for access to the Public Service. And it is that, despite the insistence of Compromís to require knowledge of Valencian from officials, the PSPV does not quite agree, which makes an agreement impossible in a controversy that has been dragging on since the first legislature.
Escola Valenciana will have a meeting in the next few days with the president of the CVMC, Mar Iglesias, to ask her for explanations on the bases of the call. Depending on how the meeting turns out, the entity will consider whether to file a complaint.
For her part, the deputy for Compromís Mónica Álvaro has presented a series of parliamentary questions to find out what is the reason why Valencian is not a requirement given that the law indicates that it is the vehicular language of regional television. Compromís wants to know if Valencian will become a requirement in future calls.
