With the arrival of the governments of the People’s Party (PP) and Vox in the Valencian Country and the Balearic Islands, the first signs are being seen of which portfolios will be emphasised through radical policy changes, thus leading to major reversals for the progress that had occurred in them. We are seeing it at present through appointments that are not just ridiculous but in many ways embarrassing. The announcement that the new minister of culture in the Valencian Country would be a bullfighter, retired and obviously representing the ultra-right has this grotesque and retrograde aspect that makes the Botanical Pact of the last two Valencian legislatures seem to be several decades more modern. The PP-Vox executive feels nearer the 1950s and 60s, the age of black and white TV, while the left-wing government is more like the latest OLED technology.
In the Balearic Islands, the autonomous Parliament has chosen Vox deputy Gabriel Le Senne, a sexist and homophobe, as its speaker, also with the support of the PP, Vox and s’Unió. His letter of presentation is certainly worrying, but votes from these three parties were enough for him to be elected in the first ballot. Between June 27th and 30th, the new government will be formed, and we will see what new surprises it offers us. As it was predicted, another area where a significant backward move will be noticed in the two communities is in the Catalan language, the real spinal column of the dismantling that the Spanish right is willing to carry out in order to make Spanish the only language in both territories, and leave Catalan as something as marginal and folkloric as possible.
