The plenary session of the Corts Valencianes approved this Wednesday, with the majority votes of the PP and Vox, the regulatory reform, which eliminates several commissions, including gender equality policies and the LGTBI collective, to reorganize these matters and include them in other commissions. It also removes inclusive language.
The change, presented in October by the spokesperson for the PP at the time, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, and the spokesperson for Vox, José María Llanos, eliminates the commissions Gender Equality Policies and LGTBI Collective, European Affairs, Human Rights and Citizen Participation, whose content is transmitted to other commissions.
It also establishes the elimination of inclusive language; modifies the parity of the Council, where “the balance is maintained, but the zipper rule disappears, and allows the transfer of appropriations between the different sections of the statutory entities.
The proposal was processed according to the single reading procedure, which is why it arrived at the plenary session without having passed through the Regulations Committee – where the PP appointed the former president of the Generalitat Carlos Mazón as spokesperson, which gives it an additional 634 euros – and without the groups being able to present amendments. Mazón arrived at the Corts Valencianes late in the morning and once the debate on this subject was over, although he was able to vote in favor of the regulatory reform.
The PSPV called the reform “fascist” because it prevents debate and the opposition from making their contribution, which was also denounced by Compromís, who warned of the regression of rights that this reform represents, in particular for women and the LGBTI community, and both groups announced that they would appeal to the Constitutional Court.
The PP and Vox defended that the norm is based “on experience, necessity and common sense” and seeks to “adapt to what the Valencian people demand”, and they criticized the left for its “tambourine feminism”.
PP deputy Alejo Font de Mora said that the reform was carried out in this way “for greater speed, agility and to adapt to what the Valencian people demand”, and highlighted that this is not the first time that the single reading is used to modify the regulations, since it was made in 2015, 2018 and 2024, under the left-wing government, called Botànic.
Vox’s mediator, José María Llanos, justified these changes by “experience, necessity and common sense”, since Vox does not accept “commissions with first and last names – in reference to the commission of the LGTBi collective – which imply privileges for some and contempt or oblivion for others”.
On the contrary, for the mediator socialist, José Muñoz, it is a “fascist reform in form and substance”, and he criticized the president of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, who proposes a lot of dialogue but the first thing he does is “avoid parliamentary debate and contributions” from the opposition. In this sense, he announced that they would appeal the regulatory change before the Constitutional Court “for violation of fundamental rights”, while warning that “Vox will end up replacing what should be the moderate right” in this country.
In the same sense, the deputy spokesperson for Compromís, Isaura Navarro, expressed the same feeling, for whom the progress of this reform tramples on the rights of the opposition, and advanced that she would also appeal because she considers it unconstitutional. Her groupmate Verónica Ruiz added that the reform also represents “a setback and an attack” against women and LGTBI people.
The PP deputy denounced the “chain of atrocities” committed by the opposition, which he criticized for talking about feminism and said that all complaints on this subject or on the fight in favor of women should be filed in Ferraz, where the PSOE headquarters are located.
He accused the PSPV of wanting to make “media noise to cover up the rot that affects the PSOE”, and regretted that “they only care about inclusive language”, which, in his opinion, “is an aberration and goes against the RAE”. Likewise, he stressed that “fascism” is “hijacking Congress, where the laws presented by the PP are not even examined” or “occupying the Constitutional Court or the State Attorney General’s Office.” The Socialist Mediator responded that there were “few lessons” from the PP and declared that in the Socialist Party we expel people accused of abuse or sexual harassment, while in the PP “we make an agreement with them and we govern with them”.
Without new members of the Transparency Council
On the other hand, the plenary session failed to elect this Wednesday the members of the Valencian Transparency Council nor those of the Directing Council of the Valencian Railway Safety Agency, since none of the candidates obtained the three-fifths majority necessary to advance in the first vote, which took place by secret ballot. Each MP was able to vote for a maximum of three names. On the one hand, the candidates to occupy the seats of the Valencian Transparency Council were Sonia Margarita Barriga and Vicente Fernández on the proposal of the PP, Sofía García for Compromís and Eduardo Ruiz for Vox.
The election not having taken place, the Les Corts regulations provide that “successive votes must now take place, in different plenary sessions within a period of two months”. The election of members of the Directing Council of the Valencian Railway Safety Agency also did not take place, requiring the same three-fifths majority. The candidates were Antonio Esparza, Carla García and Manuel Miñés, all from the single candidacy presented jointly by PP and Vox.
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