2241|SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SITUATION OF THE VALENCIAN COMMUNITY (III)

— Assessment of the general situation of the Valencian Community and Spain. — Most important current problems for the Valencian Community and for Spain. — Type of news that follows with greater interest: local, regional or national. — Opinion on the degree to which the decisions of the central, regional government and its City Council affect him. — Opinion on the current situation in the Valencian Community of: education, health, industry, environment, road network, rail transport, agriculture and housing. Developments over the last four years on these issues. — Assessment of the Valencian health system. — Most important problems in Valencian public health. — Satisfaction with existing health care in the community. — Opinion on the evolution of health care since the transfer of powers, in 1988, to the regional government. Aspects in which it has improved or worsened. — Opinion on the evolution, since the Popular Party is in charge of the Generalitat Valenciana, social services, care for the elderly and the promotion of women. Overall assessment of the work of the Government of the Generalitat in these areas. — Place of birth of the interviewee and his parents. Year in which he began to reside in the Valencian Community if he was born. — Regionalist sentiment. — Scale of Valencian nationalism. — Degree of knowledge of Valencian. Place of learning. — Language commonly used in different situations. — Degree of agreement with phrases on the need to know the Valencian to carry out certain works. — Opinion on the language in which compulsory education should be provided. — Opinion on whether the free choice between Castilian and Valencian in compulsory education is guaranteed in the Autonomous Community. — Assessment of the policy of the Council of the Generalitat in the linguistic issue. — Evaluation of the quality of teaching in Valencian colleges/institutes and universities. — Assessment of the policy of the Generalitat in relation to teaching. — Assessment of the situation of the Valencian economy. Comparison with the economic situation of the rest of Spain. — Evaluation of the current political situation in the Valencian Community. Evolution since the last regional elections of 1995. — Degree of satisfaction with the functioning of the autonomous community. — Personal preference for a greater degree of autonomy in the Valencian Community. — Opinion on the treatment that the central government gives to the Valencian Community compared to that it gives to other communities. — Assessment of the work carried out by the regional and central government, the regional parliament and that of the nation and its City Council. — Degree of confidence in the president of the Generalitat, Eduardo Zaplana. — Assessment of the management carried out in these last four years by the Consell de la Comunidad Valenciana. — Evaluation of the Autonomous Government: honesty, efficiency, capacity for dialogue and communication with the man on the street, knowledge of the problems and defense of the interests of the Valencian Community. — Approval of the policy carried out by the regional government. — Assessment of the work carried out by the opposition since the Popular Party is ruling in the Valencian Community. — Degree of closeness to different political parties. — Agreement with phrases on the decision to vote in regional elections. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee. — Memory of voting in regional elections of 1995 and general elections of 1996.