Mazón requests from the Government an aid package of 31,402 million euros to alleviate the effects of DANA

The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazónhas demanded this Monday from the Government a first aid package of 31,402 million euros to apply 136 measures of a recovery plan aimed at rebuilding, relaunching and alleviating the effects of DANA in the province of Valencia. This was stated in an institutional appearance at the Palau de la Generalitat after the extraordinary meeting of the plenary session of the Consell that was held this Monday afternoon, after the president of his party, Alberto Núñez Feijóohas claimed the national emergency declarationa question to which he has not referred.

Mazón has stated that all institutions must have a single objective and this is not the time for calculations, but it is “the time for answers, for resources, for facts” to recover the future, and has stated that he is aware of all the indignation” and “anger that exists, but we must work together looking for “solutions and certainties.”

Among the aid that it requests from the Government, it requests that the aid of 6,000 euros is completed with 15,000 euros that the Generalitat is going to give to each affected person who has lost their home due to DANA for its reconstruction or rehabilitation, and 1,464 million to help purchase vehicles and complete the benefits of the Insurance Consortium.

Also request payment of the dependency benefits and Valencian inclusion income to help the most vulnerable, as well as a double extra payment for those most affected, with a total of 65 million eurosand a line of aid for the immediate reconstruction of public infrastructure of 2,687 million euros.

Mazón has also requested help for the reconstruction of the industrial areas and industrial estates of 7 billion eurosand that all the works to adapt the channels are carried out to avoid, prevent and anticipate possible future floods, for an amount of 2,200 million euros.

All of the measures will now be sent to the Government, explained Mazón, who has indicated that their implementation is “imperative” to alleviate material damageprevent future catastrophes and guarantee the safety of a population in an area “recurrently vulnerable to this type of events.”

The president has expressly addressed all Valencians who these days “so bitter, so difficult and so painful for everyone” They have shown the world solidarity, generosity and empathy by taking to the streets to help, and have thanked them for their “citizenship lesson.”

“Reality is no storyreality is what it is and that reality we face without turning our backs on it” and “looking at it head on,” said Mazón, who has assured that “no matter how intense the pain is” and “however long, hard and complex it may seem, the path” that lies ahead, this “collective challenge” will be faced.

As he said, just like in the Valencia flood of 1957, the Tous swamp of 1982 or the DANA in Vega Baja of 2019, the Valencians will get back on their feet and to demonstrate “how far the integrity of Valencian society goes”