«I wouldn’t have said that they ask me for whatever they need, I wouldn’t have said it!», is the resounding phrase that the former president of the government Felipe González launched this Tuesday in Valladolid in clear allusion to the president of the national Executive, Pedro Sánchez, with respect to the his reaction after DANA which in the last week has devastated different autonomous communities, mainly Valencia, and has left behind 217 deaths.
The third president of the Spanish government after the transition, with a record mandate of thirteen and a half years, took advantage of his intervention in a meeting organized by ‘El Norte de Castilla’ under the title ‘Conversation with Felipe González’ to ccriticize Sánchez’s performance in this “unspeakable tragedy” for proposing State aid at the request of the affected territories.
«!I wouldn’t have said to ask me for whatever you need.“I wouldn’t have said it!” the former president blurted out and then recalled that in 1982, as soon as he took over the government of the nation, he encountered another natural tragedy in Bilbao and then he did not hesitate to send the Armed Forces from Burgos to the Biscayan capital twenty-four hours after the flood caused by the cold drop.
“The Spanish State is articulated in a central power that is not centrifuged,” the politician and lawyer has warned to reinforce the idea of leadership that, in his opinion, Pedro Sánchez should have exercised, just as he had to assume when by those dates in 1982 He contacted the then Lehendakari, Carlos Garaikoetxea, to offer him command of the troops sent to the Basque Country, something that, as he has added, the Basque president rejected since he preferred that the operation be led by the central Administration.
Remember that the day after the flood the Army had already set up tents and a field kitchen in which to care for those affected, since there was no humane way to provide this service.
«I’m going to try not to heat the environment but to cool it because Sánchez, Feijóo and the affected autonomous communities have time to sit down, plan and act now because there is a lot of work to do… and the protagonist must be the central Government,” said Felipe González, who answers affirmatively to the questions of whether decisions have been made late and whether they could have acted differently, while recalling that in the face of tragedies of this magnitude it is necessary to resort to European Funds to try to alleviate their effects.
González has also referred to the incidents recorded in Paiporta (Valencia) during the visit to the area carried out by the royal delegation and the presidents of the Government and of the Valencian Community, where “intolerable attacks” occurred despite the “logical indignation at the feeling of abandonment” of residents of the municipality, although the former president has refused to attribute such events to people linked to the extreme right because that is something that “the judicial investigation must determine.”
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