The indefinite strike of teachers in the Valencian Community is heading into its fourth week with growing tension and almost blocked negotiations. Also with a standoff with the Spanish government delegation, which has initiated the procedure to open disciplinary proceedings against the National Police officer who this Sunday assaulted a teacher who was demonstrating at the gates of the Ministry of Education to ask the regional government to accept the teachers' demands. In the video shared on social media, the woman, a 68-year-old retired teacher, is seen walking down the street amidst the protests. Then, an officer, whose head is covered with a helmet, runs towards her, pushes her violently from behind, and knocks her to the ground.

Graduate in Philosophy and Letters (Catalan Philology section) from the University of Alicante, Verònica Cantó Doménech (Cocentaina, 1964) has been the president of the Valencian Language Academy (AVL) since 2022. We speak with her at a delicate moment for the institution and for Valencian due to the policy that the Popular Party and Vox have begun to implement since their arrival at the Generalitat just over six months ago.

The Assembly of Correcting Teachers of the PAU Exams of the Valencian Country, comprising 250 teachers, has announced that it is considering not appearing for the constitution of the tribunals for the university access exams, resigning en bloc on the day they are formed – June 2nd – or adopting "more forceful" actions regarding the qualifications. The announcement coincided with a new meeting between the Generalitat and the unions to try to put an end to an indefinite strike that has entered its third week and on Tuesday had a 16% follow-up. Despite the duration of the protest, the meeting only served to advance in the reduction of bureaucracy.

That Mónica Oltra's return to the front line of Compromís would not be a smooth path was evident to anyone who knew the coalition's trajectory. Especially due to the continuous discrepancies between Iniciativa del Poble Valencià –the former vice-president's party– and the nationalists of Més. Even more so, after the progressive leader's traumatic resignation worsened the relationship between the two partners. The unknown, therefore, was to determine the intensity of the dispute. Almost two months after Oltra announced that she accepted being the electoral figurehead in the city of Valencia, we now know the answer. The start of Compromís' pre-campaign for the 2027 elections, which takes place this weekend, has given it to us, and the fact that the former Equality minister has not yet been officially designated as a candidate, a circumstance that has outraged her circle, who do not hesitate to ask if her partners truly want her fighting for the mayorship.

As if nothing interesting were happening in the Valencian Country and the fulfillment of the principle of proximity communication medium established by the foundational law of public radio and television had been suspended, this Friday viewers of À Punt will be able to verify that the channel will dedicate part of its programming to broadcasting a bullfight from the Madrid Feria de San Isidro. As striking as it may seem, it will not be the first occasion; in fact, the broadcast of the bullfighting show from the capital of the State began on May 9 and will be repeated this Sunday. What will be, however, is another example of the evolution of a channel that, with the arrival of PP and Vox to the Generalitat, is increasingly opting for content in Spanish, the mix of opinion and information, crime stories, and the dissemination of shows linked to the most conservative Spanish worldview. A trend that gives no reason to believe it will change, but rather the opposite, with the appointment this week of Román Ceballos as the new president of the board of directors of a channel that for many has long resembled the old Canal 9.

No agreement. The second meeting between the Ministry of Education and Valencian unions will end with positions still far apart and will not serve to end an indefinite strike that already totals six days and continues to enjoy broad support, as demonstrated by the fact that this Monday, according to Generalitat data, 39.7% of teachers have joined it.

Three days before a key meeting between the Valencian government and unions to end the indefinite strike in education that began on Monday, this Friday teachers once again made a show of force with a massive demonstration that paralyzed the center of Valencia and was joined by students, who also went on strike. According to the Spanish government's delegation, the march brought together more than 35,000 people.

The standoff between the Valencian Ministry of Education and teachers continues on the second day of the strike, in which the teaching staff has once again prominently supported the protest. According to the Generalitat, participation was 35%. According to teachers' representatives, the percentage has risen to 75%.

"We will resist to the maximum." The slogan among Valencian teachers seems clear after the success of the first day of the indefinite strike that began this Monday. According to the Generalitat, 50.12% of teachers have supported the strike, a figure that unions raise to 90%. All this in a context with high minimum services imposed by the education department, which in the case of second-year baccalaureate teachers has been 100%. According to the Valencian government, which has obtained the approval of the Superior Court of Justice, it is necessary to ensure that students are evaluated with a view to the selectivity exam that will take place in June.

The Spanish financial system faces the economic uncertainty generated by the attacks on Iran by the United States from a position of "strength, resilience, and profitability" and "prepared even for the worst-case scenarios." This Thursday, the CEO of CaixaBank, Gonzalo Gortázar, wanted to convey confidence in the state economy during the entity's results presentation for the first quarter of 2026. A period during which the company has once again achieved record figures. This time, a net profit of 1,572 million euros, that is, 7% more than in the same period of the previous year.

Buried more than two meters deep in the well of a house in the Bacarot district of Alicante. This is how the National Police discovered the body of Valencian businessman Jesús Tavira, 63, who had been missing since March 18. He is a well-known businessman in the scrap and vehicle trading sector, who was also the key witness in the famous trial for the 2016 shooting murder of María del Carmen Martínez, the widow of Vicente Sala, former president of the Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo (CAM), acquired by Banco Sabadell.

Thousands of people marched this Saturday in Valencia, convened by Acció Cultural del País Valencià (ACPV) and under the slogan "Faced with aggressions, we are the strength of the country," in the traditional commemoration of the April 25th diada, which recalls the defeat of Archduke Charles of Austria's troops by Philip V's army in 1707. The demonstration featured the novelty of the arrival in Valencia of the Correllengua Agermanat, which added a celebratory tone to the march.

The Generalitat Valenciana intends to implement the 35-hour weekly working day for its employees on January 1, 2027. This was announced this Friday by the Minister of Economy, Finance and Public Administration, José Antonio Rovira, at the meeting of the General Negotiating Table for autonomous civil servants, statutory personnel, and workers.

The judge investigating the allocation of protected housing in Alicante has summoned 15 people to testify as defendants and seven as witnesses. Among those investigated are the former Councilor for Urban Planning of the city, Rocío Gómez, the head of the Contracting Service of the City Council, María Pérez-Hickman, the municipal architect, Francisco Nieto, the sole administrator of the promoting cooperative, Francisco Ordiñana, and the head of the Protected Housing section of the Department of Housing, Employment, Youth and Equality, Roberto Palencia. The five must testify on May 20.

For the Valencian sociologist Rafael Xambó, the media coverage and judicial investigation of the murder of the independentist militant Guillem Agulló were entirely tendentious. 33 years after the crime, the also specialist in media, publishes The Murder of Guillem (Rebel Edicions, 2026), with a prologue by the writer Núria Cadenes and an epilogue by the former CUP leader David Fernández. An extensive work in which he analyzes why only Pedro Cuevas was convicted and the other four far-right militants who accompanied him were acquitted. The book will be presented on April 23 at the Ateneu del Pallars in Tremp, on the 24th at the Ateneu La Baula in Lleida, on the 28th at the Casal Popular Tio Cuc in Alicante, on the 29th at the Casal Jaume I in Elche, and on May 5th at the Ona bookstore in Barcelona.

The councilor for Major Projects of the Valencia City Council, José Marí Olano, allegedly favored the placement of several workers in municipal companies. This is suggested by some audio recordings advanced by Eldiario.es which record conversations between Olano and employees of the public company Consorcio Valencia 2007. In the recordings, it can be heard how the politician allegedly facilitated information about future job openings that would have served the employees to be rehired once the company they worked for ceased to exist. The recordings belong to the case opened by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office for alleged crimes of prevarication and influence peddling, in which the mayor of Valencia and high-ranking PP official, María José Catalá, and the president of the Port Authority, Mar Chao, among other public officials, are being investigated.

Consecutive strike calls, follow-ups of more than 30%, teacher closures in institutes, massive demonstrations and even some resignations. But, also, several agreements and pre-agreements. This is the scenario that the education sector in Spain has experienced in the last year. In fact, since the beginning of the school year, up to twelve autonomous communities have registered some teacher strike call, with more or less adherence. The last one was this very week in Madrid, where early childhood education teachers have called an indefinite strike that has already lasted four days.

That in practice the new baccalaureate curriculum is not so decisive and that the veto on Catalan and island authors is partially neutralized. This is what Valencian universities are counting on: they hope that their ability to design the entrance exams (PAU), added to a broad interpretation of some articles of the new educational decree, will allow them to avoid the sidelining of Balearic and Principality writers promoted by the Valencian Ministry of Education. This is how members of the Catalan philology departments explained it to el ARA after the recent meeting with the Director General of Educational Planning of the Generalitat, Ignacio Martínez Arrúe.

Almost 40% of the staff –38.5% pending the final figure, which will be made public tomorrow–, according to the Generalitat, and up to 80%, according to workers' representatives. The educational strike called this Tuesday in the Valencian Country by the unions STEPV, Comisiones Obreras, UGT, and CSIF has achieved significant participation from teachers who have also filled the streets of the main cities to denounce the "critical situation" in public schools that are "overcrowded and lacking human and material resources". A discontent that, if negotiations between unions and the administration do not prevent it, could lead to an indefinite strike at the end of May.

Create a candidacy that "overflows" Compromís and includes Esquerra Unida, Podem and Sumar. This was the condition set by Mónica Oltra to return to the political front line and that her partners from Més —the coalition's sovereignist formation— have accepted, as the former vice-president of the Generalitat Valenciana's closest collaborators explained to ARA. Once the hurdle was overcome, the movements were unleashed and on Saturday Oltra announced that she accepted the offer to be the candidate for the Valencia City Council. A decision that confirmed her determination not to wait for her judicial situation to be resolved. "The times will no longer be marked by a court," the same sources had already told ARA last Septemberannounced last September by the same sources.