The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, announced this Wednesday that her deputies will vote in favor of the Government’s royal decree-law that includes direct aid worth 10.6 billion to those affected by DANA, which last week devastated a good part of Valencia. Gamarra has maintained that “the support of the PP is guaranteed” for initiatives “that seek to repair the damage caused”, not the “well-being or comfort of a Government”, but that of “the thousands of affected”. Gamarra has insisted on saying that Pedro Sánchez has linked the aid to the approval of next year’s Budget.
Gamarra assured in a press conference that “all the aid is needed in the shortest time and with the least bureaucracy” because those affected “cannot wait any longer.” “The PP will be there,” said the general secretary, who has demanded that the Government approve more direct aid to the victims with other decree-laws. Gamarra has supported the request of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, who claimed 31,000 million from the central government.
“The royal decree-law of 10.6 billion is not enough,” he said. “More is needed, much more,” he assured. Gamarra has asked for speed in the measures: “Housing for those who have been left homeless cannot wait. Health centers, education and security cannot wait,” he added.
Gamarra has maintained that the 10,600 million in direct aid and the 5,000 million in ICO credits announced by the Government fall “very short of the needs.” “It is essential to respond to the first needs raised by the Generalitat of Carlos Mazón,” he stated.
The Secretary General has insisted on criticizing the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for supposedly linking aid to Valencians with the General Budgets for the year 2025. “Thinking about guaranteeing budgets before anything else is not the path that so many deserve. Spaniards who have lost everything and who deserve something else,” said Gamarra.
Yesterday, the PP spread the hoax that Sánchez has made DANA aid subject to the approval of the Budgets. In fact, the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, came to demand an “urgent” royal decree-law several hours after the Government announced that it had approved it.
This morning, the Deputy Secretary of Institutional Affairs, Esteban González Pons, insisted on blaming Pedro Sánchez of “blackmail” for, supposedly, “trying to get a political budget share out of what happened.” “I’m not going to rate it, but it’s not good. It’s really bad,” he added in an interview on Onda Cero.
With the decree-law of 10.6 billion already published in the BOE, Pons has assured that “When something like this happens,” in reference to DANA, “a decree is made, it is taken to Congress and validated” because “submitting to support of the Budget, granting aid is taking political advantage, it is bad and ugly,” he concluded.
Gamarra has lowered his tone against the Government and has asked for more direct aid: “They must arrive now, they cannot be conditioned to the Budgets. It is not necessary nor can aid wait. The path is the royal decree-law of extraordinary credits, credit expansions and credit generation for which the Government has the votes of the PP. If it can be this week better than next,” he stated.
Tour over Mazón
The general secretary has also come out to defend the management of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, after the express requests of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for the national emergency to be declared and, therefore, for the Government to delegate the command in the central government.
“There is no doubt and it is absolutely indisputable that President Mazón and the entire Generalitat have given everything they had from the first moment,” said Gamarra, despite information indicating that the president arrived five hours late for the meeting. of the crisis committee prior to the floods that have cost more than 200 lives.
“We would like to be able to say the same about the Government of Spain,” said Gamarra, who insisted that “the entire Government of the Generalitat, with Carlos Mazón at the helm, has been assisting those affected from the first moment and putting in and doing everything possible with everything you have at your disposal.”
Gamarra has not insisted on calling for a national emergency, as Feijóo did last Monday and the previous Thursday against the president’s criteria, but has assured, in the past, that he should have activated that figure. The words of the PP leader dragged the entire party with him, including the other regional barons, which showed the loneliness of a Mazón who has clung to command over the tragedy as insurance for his continuity in office.
“These discussions of jurisdiction that the Government has entered into are absurd and are also harmful,” he said, ignoring the fact that it was Feijóo who raised the question of who should assume command. Neither Sánchez nor Mazón have ever raised a confrontation about the national emergency since both administrations have defended maintaining the usual ‘status quo’.
“The only thing that has been raised and is raised by the PP is that the Government had to do what it had to do from the first moment,” he said, in the face of “a situation that no one doubts was beyond the autonomous community and that it was a situation of national emergency.”
Gamarra has said that “this is a topic perfectly addressed” by Feijóo with Mazón, although with divergent public opinions.
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