The PP-Vox coalition now taking charge of the Valencia Country autonomous community will cause the land's co-official language to come under increasing threat. Valencian, which is the same Romance language as Catalan, and according to a 2010 survey, spoken fluently by almost half the population of the region although used much less than Spanish overall, is likely to be one of the first targets of the new right-wing administration, according to the clues given by the future president, Carlos Mazón (People's Party) this Wednesday. Mazón is currently negotiating with his party's far-right partner on the deployment of the programmatic agreement, which they will probably announce this Thursday. One of the core elements of the agreement will be linguistic issues and, in that regard, Mazón has announced that he intends to eliminate the Linguistic Rights Office, which he referred to as the "Linguistic Police Office".
Although the details of the agreement between the PP and Vox are yet to be announced, Mazón did not doubt in a radio interview this Wednesday to criticize the work of this office created in 2017 by the left-wing Valencian government, a PSOE-Compromís-Unides Podemos coalition, to ensure compliance with and application of the legal regulations on the use of the official languages in the Valencian Country - that is, Spanish and Valencian - and, at the same time, to channel public complaints, suggestions and inquiries "on linguistic discrimination". In this regard, the PP leader told Cadena COPE that "the army of language advisers appointed by fiat" must be eliminated, the figure of educational inspectors restored to its previous levels and what he called the "Valencian-style process" (in reference to the Catalan independence process), which, in his opinion, the left had been promoting in the Valencian Country for eight years, must be "brought to an end". He asserted the need to "remove ideology from the classrooms". Carlos Mazón also criticised the requirements on speaking Valencian in healthcare professions, where to gain a permanent position as a doctor, he said, "Valencian is worth the same as medical training".
The area of language and educational matters are expected to be one of the battlefields of the new PP and Vox coalition. In the schematic agreement in principle that the two partners released on Tuesday, there were five programmatic axes. The first was entitled “Freedom so that we can all choose”, in reference to charter schools; and the fourth, "Signs of identity, to defend and recover our signs of identity", alluding to the predominance of Spanish over Valencian. The importance of the movements in the Valencian Country will also have to be analyzed as a test bed for what might happen throughout the Spanish state if the PP and Vox win the general election on July 23rd.