Ximo Puig announced yesterday that he has spoken with the president of the Congress, Francina Armengol, to use the double denomination "Catalan/Valencian" in the Lower Chamber if progress is made in the goal of being able to use other languages in addition to Spanish . "We talked about it last Friday and she agrees", pointed out yesterday the leader of the PSPV, who, like Armengol, is a clear defender of federalism in the PSOE and of promoting the use of co-official languages in the institutions of the state.
Ximo Puig also emphasized that "for the first time since 1834, the deputies will be able to use Valencian in the Lower Chamber", and he insisted that "the president of the Congress, Francina Armengol, is aligned with our position". "Valencian, in accordance with what is established by the Valencian Language Academy, must be present like the other co-official languages, and so it will be".
In relation to the institutional declaration made by the Council of President Carlos Mazón on Friday, in which it was criticized that the Valencian was not included, Ximo Puig defended that "it is not time to reopen old wounds and lose ourselves in battles that do not lead to nothing". "The worst thing that can happen to the Valencian is that it is the object of conflict, those who don't want the Valencian can't bring us back to this situation."
According to the former president, "the PP sees problems where we see progress". Faced with the criticism of Vox and sectors of the Valencian PP against the Valencian Language Academy, AVL, the entity that created Eduardo Zaplana's PP, assessed that "it is the regulatory body that has served to pacify a conflict that now some want to reactivate".
The general secretary of the PSPV-PSOE assessed that "what is an attack against the language is not using it", and that "those who never speak Valencian cannot defend it". He affirmed that the decision to allow the use of the co-official languages in Congress is a "determining step" that shows that "diverse Spain ends up prevailing, and the more diverse the better".
Regarding the difficulties there may be in the European Union to incorporate Valencian, he pointed out that Spain "has a uniform voice" and that, "even if it costs, languages that were not visible will finally have their space". "The decision to allow the use of the co-official languages in Congress is a decisive step that shows that the real Spain ends up prevailing and that we are stronger in diversity", he added.
Mazón's executive announced last week that at the next meeting of the Council, which will be in September, an "institutional declaration" will be issued in defense of the Valencian. Ximo Puig criticized yesterday that "an announcement is made of something that wants to be announced".
