If something particularly bothers Carlos Mazon does anyone in any forum refer to the Valencian Community with a name that is not yours. And above all, Valencian country. Because this This is the name given to it by the Catalan independence movement. to this territory to insert themselves into these imaginations Catalan countries. This Friday, during the press conference that Carlos Mazón offered at Moncloa after interviewing Pedro Sánchez, a journalist from the Catalan newspaper National.cat. He used precisely this term, that of país valenceto refer to the Valencian Community. And the Valencian president did not hesitate in his response: “I will ask you to respect my Status of Autonomy and not to describe my Community as país valenceif you were so kind.
The sequence that contains Mazón’s forceful response shows a Zasca in full domination of Catalanism. But above all, a defense of Valencian identity. And you can see in the video which illustrates this information.
The events occurred while question time was taking place for journalists accredited to Moncloa. An informant asked the Valencian president a question in Catalan in which referred to the Valencian Community as país valence.
Mazón, which does not happen once this territory is not called by the name indicated by its Statute of Autonomy, that of Valencian Communitywaited for the question to conclude. And then he asked his interlocutor who his medium was.
He answered her once. Carlos Mazón, politely but with total firmness, declared: “I am going to ask you to respect my Statute of Autonomy and that no longer refer to my community as país valenceif you were so kind.
Then he continued by explaining that: “I I have great respect for the Autonomy Status of all the Communities of Spain”, a direct allusion to the correspondence that the Catalans request by their own Statute.
To add, in the same sense, that “in article 1 of my Statute, that of Valencian Communityratified by the Valencians, says that the name of Valencian Community It’s exactly this: Valencian Community. And and“or I would ask you, please, to respect it.” To conclude with another sentence no less clear and direct in relation to Valencian identity: “If you do not demand respect for your Statute, the President of the Generalitat will tell me who will do it.”
This is not the first time that Carlos Mazón has reacted by defending the Valencian identity signs in front of the representative of a Catalan media. A few months ago, during a visit to Barcelona, the Valencian president was interviewed live on TV3.
In this interview they also asked him using the term país valence to refer to the Valencian Community. And his response was of the same content as that of this Friday at Moncloa.
Carlos Mazón is currently promoting and finalizing a law on Valencian identity which, among other things, clearly includes respect for the Statute of Autonomy and the differentiating features with Catalonia and its imaginaries. Catalan countries. In his speech, he clarified, and he repeated it later, that “with the Statute of Autonomy and Valencian autonomy, jokes, not a single one“.
