The new DANA that entered the south and east of Spain this Wednesday has left a clear message: The Generalitat Valenciana could have acted differently both on October 29 and in the days before. This time the storm caused the red level warnings to be activated in Valencia and the province of Málaga and the Junta de Andalucía, with Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla up front, he has corrected everything that was done wrong in the Valencian Country two weeks ago.
On Tuesday night, shortly before 10:00 p.m., the AEMET warned that the alert for torrential rains in some parts of Andalusia would be raised to the maximum level. Mobile phones in the province of Malaga received thenotice of the ES-Alert Civil Protection system asking for caution and to avoid traveling half an hour later. Classes were suspended, health centers were closed and people were asked not to go to work the next day to avoid human harm.
Furthermore, one day before, on Monday afternoon, the Junta de Andalucía had activated the Emergency Plan in phase 0, the pre-emergency phase. The Andalusian 112 emergency coordination center was monitoring the situation and on Wednesday Moreno Bonilla suspended his parliamentary agenda to join it in Malaga, due to the forecast that the weather situation would worsen during the night. The AEMET had warned that it would maintain the red notice until 8:00 a.m. on Thursday.
Preventive measures
“If the collaboration of the Army were necessary, we would not take a minute to request it,” said the president of the Junta de Andalucía during an interview in The Sixth. Mazón did not request the intervention of the army in Valencia until Thursday, October 31after the meeting with Pedro Sánchez at the emergency coordination center. Two days after DANA.
As this newspaper has learned, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who was with Mazón minutes before he saw the President of the Government, pressured him to do it. He also told him that, in his opinion, it was a national emergency situation and he should leave management control in the central Executive. The Valencian baron did not comply with this request.
But, when Moreno says that he would immediately request the collaboration of the Army, he is not only questioning Mazón’s actions through factsis also destroying one of the pillars of the PP’s narrative in recent weeks by which the Government can – and must – deploy troops without the autonomies requiring it.
“València has vaccinated us”
The popular They have adopted the hoax of “if they want help, ask for it” that the President of the Government never said. His statements were exactly these: “I want to reiterate to the citizens of the Valencian Community and to the whole of Spanish society what from the first moment, each and every one of the members of the Crisis Committee of the Government of Spain, and I personally, I have transferred it to the Government of the Generalitat of the Valencian Community and to President Mazón. And the central government is ready to help. If it needs more resources, it does not need to prioritize some municipalities over others or prioritize tasks. when, when there is a lack of means. And that, that is not the case.”
Trust in the AEMET
Moreno Bonilla has defended that what happened in Valencia “has unfortunately been a learning experience for everyone” and that, “in one way or another, it has vaccinated us.” The Andalusian president thus defended his quick reaction to the warnings from the meteorological organizations during an interview in Zero Wave. He avoided pointing directly to Mazón and did not question the AEMET, against which Feijóo has charged since the dimensions of the catastrophe began to be known.
The president of the Generalitat has also taken more preventive measures this time. Also with information from the AEMET. Mazón postponed the plenary session for one day with his appearance at the Consell in response to the red level warnings from the meteorology agency. On Tuesday, October 29, he kept his entire schedule as normal and arrived two hours late at the emergency coordination center.
Regarding his role that day, the delay in alerting citizens and the lack of prevention will have to be answered this Friday by Mazón in the Generalitat. In no case will he resign, but he will announce changes to his team to try to stop the pressure on him. “I also don’t think it is necessary for the president of the Generalitat, at this moment, to resign (…) He has to continue working until there is a definitive recovery,” the Andalusian baron has defended.
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