It's a classic of Spanish politics: when you have a problem, stimulate the gastric fluids of your voters, whom you privately consider shorter than a rabbit's tail, and make them salivate by brandishing a good cut of Catalanophobia.
And that's why Carlos Mazón, always short on intellectual and political resources, didn't think better of it than to play the big shot with the announcement in Les Corts that he wants the Valencian Academy of Language to be renamed the Academy of the Valencian Language. Footnote: he doesn't have the votes to change the law of the Academy, nor, much less, to change the Statute of Autonomy, so what he said and nothing are the same thing. And if he wants to continue going around the world defending that the Earth is flat, that's up to him with his ignorance.
The most miserable aspect of the situation is that this isn't about heralding new glory in Spain, but rather using Catalan to divert attention from the fact that it will soon be eleven months since a DANA announced early this morning in all the media, in which more than two hundred people died in Mazón's absence.
Mazón is still president of the Valencian Community, and has already secured some of the perks associated with the position. And it's even likely that there are Valencians willing to give him their trust again. But Mazón is already condemned and will carry the DANA until the last day of his life. And as Joan Baldoví aptly said, "things are bad for the PP if the alternative to Mazón is Paco Camps."
