Valencia celebrates its National Day

  • A demonstration will fill the streets of Valencia in the afternoon

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09.10.2014 - 09:15

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Today, 9 October, is the Valencia’s National Day in remembrance of King James I’s entry in the city in 1238, which is the year that we could say marks the birth of País Valencià (Valencia). Nine October now has a meaning of festivity and protest concerning the Valencian identity. However, this year the day takes on a special meaning because everything seems to indicate that the Partido Popular, the party now governing Spain and which has governed the Valencia Country with an absolute majority since 1999, will lose the elections next year. The latest surveys and the results of the European elections at least seem to point to this. 

In the morning there will be the institutional acts (civic procession through the streets of Valencia) and the protest events in the evening, such as the demonstration of the Comissió 9 d’Octubre, an umbrella commission in Valencia which gathers the cultural and social as well as the Valencian and left wing political organisations.

Related information:

Analysis of the May 25 European elections: PP’s fall is drastic in Valencia. Take a good look at the results that PP had there. It loses a staggering twenty-three points. It is the biggest decrease in the whole of the Spanish State. And the parties on the left are clearly now a majority, just a year before the Valencian elections. Compromís, in addition, had extraordinary results in comparison with five years ago and achieves its goal—also historic—of sending a representative to the European Parliament. Its leaders said that Valencian nationalism would be capable of leading a successful European candidacy. And they succeeded. (26.05.2014)

PP attacks Valencian Academy of Language for recognizing language unity ( 02.02.2014)

Ruling PP succeeds on imposing Spanish on Valencian airwaves, in just three years (22.01.2014)

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