“It is regrettable that the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, with everything that is happening, has not done one, absolutely no statement or statement in Catalan. It’s degrading“. This unfortunate comment belongs to Joan Serna, leader of the Junts Youth in the town of Sant Just Desvern.
The words of this young graduate in Political Sciences and similar to the postulates of Carles Puigdemontare dated October 31, when the tragic damage that DANA has caused in the Valencian Community was already well known. And there are many who have responded, indignant: “How is it possible that someone so young can live in that hatred? and so far from reality?”, “Valencia is sinking but the important thing is to say it in Catalan. It is clear that some of you do not have your priorities in order”, “is the president of the Generalitat Valenciana. In any case it would have to be done in Valencian not in Catalan, but we will be discussing this while Valencians do not have water, clothing, shelter and their relatives appear dead…”.
However, despite the fact that the list of reproaches against those degrading words is endless, Joan Serna not only ignores the criticism and refuses to apologize, but insists and ironically with Mazón’s first statements in Valencian.
It was precisely this Monday when Carlos Mazón made his first statement during this crisis in Valencian (not in Catalan). And at this point, it should be noted that although the president of the Generalitat Valenciana has always defended Valencian as its own language compared to Catalan, admits not speaking it fluently. What’s more, in some of his interviews he acknowledged that if they speak to him in Valencian, he usually responds in Spanish.
However, the PP leader is not the only one on whom the Junts leaders have focused. Another of his deputies, Francesc de Dalmaseshas reproached the Catalan president, Salvador Illa, for addressing the Valencians in Spanish in the institutional statement he made on October 30.
“A serious mistake, very serious, that President Illa addresses the brothers of the Valencian Country in Spanish, because if there is a language that unites us, it is, precisely, Catalan,” reproached the independence leader through his social networks. A criticism that Joan Serna also echoes.
Hookup with Puigdemont
The formation of Carles Puigdemont is giving a lot of talk in recent days, following his statements about the management of DANA in Valencia. One of the first to be involved in a dispute for this reason was the former president himself, who took advantage of the controversy that arose after the kings’ visit to Paiporta: “Muddy up to their crowns, they will march with their tails between their legs“.
Some words that provoked the indignation of the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García Pageamong others, who exploded on social networks and called the independence leader “miserable.” “You have always been miserable as a politician. I suspect as a person, too. I don’t know if it was with your tail between your legs. But yes showing your face and not in the trunk of a car fleeing like a coward“, assured García-Page in defense of the monarchs.