Mompó distances itself: it agrees to remove Philip V from streets and avenues and reclaims April 25th.
Vicent Mompó, president of the Valencia Provincial Council, approached reporters yesterday after the event held by the institution he presides to commemorate April 25th. He knew they would ask him why he did there and not in the Corts, and very calmly said that "like everything in life, you have to reach agreements, and sometimes you have to do things you like more or less in order to move forward."
By "those things you like the least," Mompó was referring to the elimination of the institutional event that had been held in the Valencian Parliament since 1994, and which Vox, with the connivance of the PP, eliminated yesterday. Here, Mompó asserted that he was "convinced that all of our PP colleagues agree on restoring Valencian civil law, but the idiosyncrasies of the institutions... each one is what it is." He mentioned the agreement between the PP and Vox over the Valencian budget, a negotiation that allows the far right to manipulate the timing and is putting the Valencian government in more than one difficult position—the elimination of aid to unions and employers' associations and the cuts to the AVL (Valencian Workers' Association), being examples. He asserted that "it is important to have a budget in the Parliament; they are very important for the Valencian people."
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He also didn't shy away from the question of whether the PP he represents and the one that governs in the Palau de la Generalitat share an opinion. "The PP isn't of a single mind, and I hope no other party is either," he noted, while praising the lessons learned from co-governance with Ens Uneix, the municipalist party of Jorge Rodríguez with which he heads the Provincial Council. It was this party, through its deputy and vice president of the Provincial Council, Natàlia Enguix, who brought the motion to repeal the Nueva Planta decrees of 1707 to the plenary session on April 15th. The motion was approved, and yesterday Mompó read the beginning, while Enguix read the end.
Mompó's involvement in an event with a special symbolic significance for Valencian politics contrasts with President Carlos Mazón's silence on the matter, who made no mention of the anniversary either on social media or at the events he attended. Mompó, however, emphasized that yesterday's event was about "commemorating our history and remembering where we come from, since we are very proud to be Valencian, of our culture and our language."
Mompó emphasizes that April 25th serves to "commemorate our history and remember where we come from."Precisely the appreciation of the native language is one of the elements that sets Mompó apart from other prominent figures in the Popular Party. He did so in the language consultation, clearly positioning himself in favor of Valencian— a statement that earned him considerable criticism from Vox and Lo Rat Penat—and by participating in the latest edition of the Trobades por el Valenciano organized by Escola Valenciana .
However, his position is always clear: he respects the rules of the Valencian Academy of Language (AVL), but clarifies that within them "some may be used that are more typical of our peoples" and has not hesitated to censure those who "have tried to impose how we should speak, separating the people from their Valencian."
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Yesterday, he encouraged those who see in him a Popular Party distinct from the one governing the Valencian Community, especially when he joined the proposal of the Association of Valencian Jurists to remove the name of Philip V from streets and avenues in Valencian municipalities, such as Banyeres and Elda. "I'm from La Ribera, Xàtiva is very close by, and I've visited the painting of Philip V upside down. He was a king who treated Valencians with contempt; having said what I say, it goes without saying anything else," he replied yesterday. He understands that it could upset the Valencian identity and said that "it wouldn't hurt to remove it from the streets."
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