The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, went to the Valencian Community this Thursday to defend the management of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, and attack the central government during the DANA that in the last hours has claimed 95 human lives , 92 of them in the Mazón community. Feijóo has called the storm a “national emergency” which, in the case of the Valencian Community, “is being managed with information from another public administration”, in reference to the central government. The leader of the opposition has established himself as coordinator of regional presidents of the PP and PSOE, has questioned the information from the AEMET and has highlighted the work of the regional authorities: “The pride in how they have worked will always last us ”.
Feijóo visited the Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat Valenciana with Mazón and then spoke to the media. As soon as he started, he tried to reduce the responsibility of the regional presidents, including his party colleague. “DANA has affected a good part of Spain, from Eastern to Western Andalusia, from Cuenca to Albacete and probably other communities,” he began.
“We are facing a national emergency,” he added. A statement that is not trivial since, according to El País, the Government considered declaring said emergency, which would have meant taking away the powers of the regional president and taking command.
Feijóo has dedicated his entire appearance before the media to limiting the responsibilities of the regional presidents. “They have carried the weight of this national emergency,” he insisted, and he has used himself as an example: “I have been regional president for a long time and I know the loneliness of a regional president who does not have all the tools and yet , citizens demand additional responsibility from him.” And if it is “additional” it escapes its powers.
Against the Government, the AEMET and the Hydrographic Confederation
The opposition leader has questioned the management of the central government and the organizations that depend on it. Feijóo has specifically cited the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) and the Hydrographic Confederation.
“I assure you that a regional president manages based on the information he receives, and the information received depends on organizations with exclusive jurisdiction of the central government, see the AEMET or the Hydrographic Confederation,” he said.
Feijóo has questioned the information from these public organizations: “No one can make decisions based on information that can be exact, inaccurate, or improvable. Decisions are made based on the information provided to you at all times,” he insisted.
According to the chronology of what happened on Tuesday, the AEMET placed the entire coast of Valencia and the northern interior of the province on red alert level at 09:48 in the morning, and the Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat Valenciana issued a red level alert for this entire area, just 12 minutes later. At one in the afternoon, Carlos Mazón himself said that the intensity of DANA was going to decrease after 6:00 p.m. Information that he himself published on his official Twitter account and that he later deleted due to the events.
Coordinator of regional presidents
The leader of the PP, without any executive responsibility in any area, has regretted that the central government does not convey information to him in the first person. “I have no information from the central government. At all. “No one has informed me of anything, I have been the one who has had to inform myself about what is happening in my country,” he said. Feijóo has said that he himself has had to “pick up the phone to talk” with the Castilian-Manchego president, Emiliano García-Page, “answer the calls with Mazón” or “find out with Moreno how the larger community is doing.” in reference to Andalusia.
Despite doing so insistently, Feijóo has said that he had not gone to Valencia “to make a story or political assessment.” He immediately added: “The protocols have been complied with.”
Furthermore, Feijóo has boasted of having “put on notice” the presidents of Murcia, Fernando López Miras; Aragón, Jorge Azcón; Extremadura, María Guardiola; Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso; or Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, in case their collaboration was required: “It is my role, what I have been working on.”
Feijóo has also become the representative of all regional presidents outside his party. “We are going to continue collaborating,” he said in the first person. “The 12 regional presidents of the PP and those of the PSOE are a group,” he added. “No one is going to divert us, we know our responsibilities and limitations,” he concluded.
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