The PP does not want Valencian students to study Rodoreda or Maria Mercè Marçal

ValenciaHaving passed the period of greatest criticism of Carlos Mazón, the PP intends to make people forget the crisis over the management of the DANA (National Action Plan for the Development of the Catalan National Assembly) by confronting the Spanish government and stoking anti-Catalan sentiment. The Valencian conservatives have brought their identity-based agenda out of the drawer and, now that they need Vox's support for the Generalitat's budget, are preparing another attack on the unity of the Catalan language: removing Catalan and island authors from the school curriculum.

The PP and its partners propose revising the curriculum for the Valencian language subject, which in high school includes compulsory study of Catalan authors such as Mercè Rodoreda and Maria Mercè Marçal and, as a complementary subject—depending on the teachers' criteria—of others such as Prud.

The first step will take place this Thursday in the vote on the resolutions of the general policy debate. The document filed by the People's Party (PP) proposes modifying the subject's curriculum: "So that it is based on authors from our community," they argue. The initiative must subsequently be finalized by the Ministry of Education, which will have to change the required content for the University Entrance Exams (PAU), which in the 2025-2026 academic year include some works by Rodoreda and Marçal. This document, and no other, is the one that in practice determines the essential subjects studied in high school.

Name change of the AVL

The resolution, which will almost certainly be approved today, joins other initiatives announced Tuesday by Mazón, such as the amendment to the law of the Valencian Language Academy to change its name to the Valencian Language Academy. The head of the Consell justifies the change to "define the boundaries" of the academy's identity and summarizes the PP's intentions as follows: "To defend our language as our own, unique, singular, and unparalleled." However, this is a proposal that will be difficult to implement because its approval would require the votes of the PSPV and Compromís, given that it requires a three-fifths majority in the Cortes because it is an institution included in the Statute of Autonomy.

Along the same lines, the PP leader pledged to approve a law on identity symbols to "protect and promote the unique characteristics of the Valencian people," and that in this case, the PP and Vox could be successful with their votes. "It's our way of reflecting the majority sentiment of the Valencian people toward this model of democratic and supportive coexistence that threatens those who want to see us become second-class citizens," explained the head of the Consell. Also in the area of identity, he announced that he will promote allowing students taking the University Entrance Exams (PAU) to choose between taking Valencian or Spanish exams and which grade counts.