Not content with the aggression and self-loathing that the PP displays toward Catalan in the EU, we are now witnessing a contest of cynicism from the Valencian PP toward Valencian. Now it turns out there is a great deal of rending of garments because when they ask Minister Albares why they have not requested the official status of Valencian in Europe, the minister fails to obtain it. Philology solved the answer for him: Valencian is the name that the Catalan language receives in the Valencian Country. If Catalan is official in the European Parliament, so is Valencian. He could even have quoted the definition of Valencian from the dictionary of the Royal Academy: "A variety of Catalan spoken in much of the former kingdom of Valencia and commonly felt there as its own language."

Suddenly, the statement before the judge by former Valencian Minister of the Interior and Justice, Salomé Pradas, has shown that the king has no clothes on his back, and that politicians, in reality, don't know much about anything and are puppets of the technicians. Pradas has no problem admitting that she is incompetent ("I'm just a law graduate with no experience in emergencies") because she believes that this is how she will avoid criminal liability. The reasoning is very simple: she cannot be responsible for the deaths of 228 people during the DANA (Recovery and Emergency Situation) because, in fact, she didn't even know that her job was to save them. This was the work, she says, of the technicians "with 100 years of experience" who were there. But then why was a year earlier, with the same technicians, a DANA (Recovery and Emergency Situation) in the Vega Baja managed completely differently with Ximo Puig as president?