This week the main political facts in the bacavian territories have been the following
Balearic Isles: constitution of a platform of all the political parties that do not have an explicit link with spanish parties to go to the Spanish Parliament. This balearic/bacavist platform is made up of PSM (left majorcan/bacavist), UM (liberal majorcan/bacavist), ERC (left bacavist) and Entesa per Mallorca (municipalist, majorcan). This coalition is made with the aim of obtaining a bacavian nationalist member of the parliament in Madrid since, until now, PP and PSOE have always got all the seats from the Isles. The ex-communist/ecologist party EU will therefore go by itself and has very little chances of obtaining representation. This is a major change in the political arena in the Balearics. In 2007, in the elections to the Balearic autonomous Parliament, the EU+ERC+PSM constituted the “Bloc” that managed, after elections, with PSOE/PSIB and UM, to take the government out of the hands of PP.
València: The anti-bacavist PP government has made some more movements in its aim to annihilate any effort to promote the catalan language and the valencian culture, but it always finds the opposition of many people resisting the attacks. This week the Valencian Supreme Court of Justice has said (for 13th time) that valencian and catalan are two names for the same language and no discrimination shall be done to people using philology titles of catalan to teach the language in schools. Also they try to close the antennas taking the catalan tv signal (TV3) to valencia, but justice has not allowed them to do it in Castelló, after their success two weeks ago in Alacant. Finally the nationalist (Bloc) + left (EU) coalition is formed again to go to the Spanish Parliament, trying to reproduce the success of the last Valencian autonomous elections in 2007.
Catalonia: the left-nationalist governmental coalition (PSC/ERC/IC) has not been able to get an agreement with the socialist government (PSOE) in Madrid about the cession of the local trains around Barcelona, even though PSC and PSOE are the same party. There is a big feeling of disapointment in Catalonia, since the trains function awfully and the central government is only wanting to get rid of the service but without the provision of funds to invest on the service. The general perception is that the central government cannot be trusted in its compromises and people each time is more disappointed with politicians. In culture, Lleida has just passed the capitality of the catalan culture to Perpinyà, in Rosselló (in the French state), that will do the job during 2008.
