Talk:Valencian Nationalist Bloc

two lines restored

Some lines have been suppressed recently on the grounds of being POV. I am agreeable partially with this deletion, but I have restored a couple lines.

The first talks of the independence wish amongst some ranks in BLOC. I think it is without doubt that some (not all) of the militants and some of the BLOC leaders would like an independent País Valencià, therefore, I can't see why this line should be deleted: a nationalist party wishing for independence is nothing strange.

The other line suppressed which I restored is the one talking of the coalition not meeting the expectations. Suppressing this line looks like white-washing to me. Let's just go to the files during the electoral campaign and see how many seats the coalition was aiming for and how many they actually got. Or we could just quote the words of Glòria Marcos the night of the elections and her disappointment for the poor results and the fact that the PP made its absolute majority wider despite the hopes held by Compromís that this could be broken.

I agree that the comparison with UV was rather out of place.

Mountolive

Hi, buddy!  :)

Let's discuss changes step by step, ok?

• : Regarding some of the members of the BNV longing for independence... I think that's the ideology of those guys, not the main amount of members or voters of the BNV. I mean, the official guideline of this party says nothing about independence.
• : Regarding expectations, I erased the sentence about them because it's highly subjective. I mean, one leader may say they want A++, another leader may be more realistic and wish for a pure A. As you know, politicians tend to pretend to be highly optimistical because of a strategy to attract voters.

If we begin explaining what everybody wants and what finally gets, it may be... tricky?

"BNV wanted Compromís to ally with PSPV, PSPV wanted an absolute majority, Camps got to be the happiest man on the world... and Zaplana... what did he expect?"

No, expectations are not enciclopedical.

--Casaforra (parlem-ne) 14:39, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi there,

Aw! you call me buddy, but you want me to delve into the dull Estatuts and party documents in a hot summer sticky afternoon to look for independentism within the BLOC!?! that is not how buddies treat each other, man!.

now, more seriously, I am not going to look into references for the obvious, I don't have air conditioning and my patience is rather little even in cooler temperatures, but how would you translate "total sobirania nacional" [1] ? that is three words which could also be expressed in just one, which starts by inde- and ends by -dència, right?

anyway, if you don't like the mention to independence, we can edit to "complete national sovereignity" if you prefer it like that. The thing is that just "greater autonomy" sounds a bit misleading for the Spanish context, where Autonomous Communities have a high autonomy degree, for sure within the highest in the Free World...

as for expectations, indeed they may be not enciclopedical, but when these expectations are expressed by the high ranks of the party as the main goal of a political campaign, then they become a fact: we are not saying here whether those expectations were founded or not, we are just saying that they had those expectations, and those weren't met, that's all.

am I making any sense?

Mountolive.-

Of course you make sense! Actually, greater sense than me with my poor English!  ;-)

• Independence/Complete national sovereignity: First, it's a term from the "Bloc Jove" (the youngsters), not the official party. Second, if even the youngsters avoid the word "independence" we should avoid it as well.
• Expectations: In the Mariano Rajoy article I haven't found a word about his expectations of getting a new absolute majority in the 2004 elections. All politicians say they are going to win!

Politics is a game of spoken words and non-pronounced sentences. So no, I don't think expectations are enciclopedical. --Casaforra (parlem-ne) 15:44, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

I bet you anything that is not a term only from the Bloc Jove: as I said above, I don't have patience enough to start reading the BLOC Estatuts, but I am 100% sure that, if the term "total soberania nacional" is not mentioned, there is a perfect cognate and several equivalents. Also, the youngsters may be young, but they are supervised by the party, they are a part of the party, and what they say is understood to be within the party lines.

as for expectations, the Rajoy comparison is tricky, for it overlooks the most important fact: this coalition "Compromís pel País Valencià" was made based in a goal which had two dimensions: securing representation and changing government. The first part was achieved (and is stated in the text). The second part was not achieved...and also has to be stated in the text, because these "expectations" were, actually, the cornerstone, the raison d'etre, of this coalition, thus it can't be downplayed to the usual "mere expectations" expressed in political campaigns.

Mountolive.-

Regarding the word "independence": I cant prove what doesn't exist. If you think the word "independence" appears in their statutes it's you who have to prove it.

Anyway, with the sentence you picked up from Bloc's webpage I guess there is no further need to discuss wether if some members claim for independence or not.

By the way, if you don't mind I put in cursive the lines you selected from their document, ok?

The coalition "Compromís" was made with the purpose you rightly point, and the PSPV goes to elections wishing to get absolute majority, and Aznar would like to be taller. We all have expectations. Do we have to list all of them?

Have you checked the Ronaldo article? There is no mention of his failed promise of getting 30 goals during the 06/07 season. [2] and [3]

--Casaforra (parlem-ne) 16:35, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Sure, cursive is actually the right way for quotes: please go ahead with it.

Casa, don't be sorrut...I stand by my claim: it is not the same the normal "expectations" of the usual stablished parties than the expectations which move two different parties to run together, against their better judgement (everyone, if they have the chance, prefer to do as they wish instead of having to make a "compromís" instead...). The importance of this which you keep debasing to mere expectation is so high that, after not having met the expectations, there are obvious internal tensions within EUPV which may end up in schisms.

Mountolive.-

The actual wording is fine for me: No "independence" word (as it isn't on their statutes), and a line about expectations not POVish and contextualizing.

Thx for your work improving the article.  :)

"Parlant s'entén la gent!"  ;-) --Casaforra (parlem-ne) 17:03, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Merge from Més–Compromís

If I understand the sources correctly El Bloc was not dissolved, but changed its name to Més–Compromís. So there's a clear continuity, being the same organization with a new name, rather than the old party being dissolved. So it wouldn't be accurate to split both articles and consider El Bloc as a defunct party and Més–Compromís as a new party. See es:Més-Compromís, where the article was renamed, rather than split. So I'm proposing to merge both Més–Compromís and Valencian Nationalist Bloc articles to reflect more accurately this change.

References

--MarioGom (talk) 11:37, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

As stated in the discussion of :es.wiki, there are lots of cases where a party renamed in a refoundation process, and now those formations have different Q and different entries in Wikipedia. As an example, when conservative Alianza Popular (Spain) refounded into Partido Popular, its president famously said now AP will be named PP. That's my decision. More examples can be found. Press has considered this to be a refoundation, and sources already consider Més and BLOC different things. The split in Spanish Wikipedia (the only one who opted for merging both formation as a single one) is just a matter of time. And more if we already take into consideration Unitat del Poble Valencià being an antecessor of both formation having its own article.--TaronjaSatsuma (talk) 11:46, 12 October 2021 (UTC)