Two and a half hours of intervention and the only “error” that Carlos Mazón has admitted in the first person was deleting a video on social networks on Tuesday night, October 29, with some of his statements in which he assured that DANA was moving. “I recognize it,” he said. He hasn’t recognized anything else. He president of the Generalitat has lied, blaming the Hydrographic Confederation for an “information blackout” to justify prevention errors and has pointed out a failure of the “system” as a whole to not take responsibility for the management of the days that followed the catastrophe.
Mazón’s most anticipated appearance has ended with more than 180 minutes of excuses in which he has announced a remodeling of the Government to turn it into the “Consell of recovery” with two new ministries and a vice presidency “for reconstruction.” Mazón has not announced any dismissal in his team as expected by a sector of the Popular Party, for which even this would be insufficient.
He president He has made clear his intention to continue at the head of the Generalitat – as this media reported, his resignation was never on the table – and he is preparing to entrench himself in the exercise, he said, of his “responsibility” with the reconstruction of the affected areas. “We are committed to recovery to be better prepared for future climate catastrophes,” he said.
Leave Salomé Pradas without Interior and Emergencies
To this end, he has announced a new vice presidency and ministry for economic and social reconstruction. “It is not just a department, it will be the heart of our recovery strategy. Its mission will be to coordinate the reconstruction (…) harmonizing the decisions of the Consell,” he explained. In addition, a new Department of Emergencies and Interiorwhich will have among its powers, as Mazón said, “review, update and demand that the Government of Spain modify the disaster warning and response protocols.”
Until now it was Salome Pradas the person responsible for these matters as Minister of the Interior and Justice. Mazón’s announcement leaves her, right now, only as Minister of Justice, although her name and that of Nuria Martín, at the head of Tourism, are the most questioned within the current Government.
He president has blamed the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation for an “information blackout” regarding the flooding of the Poyo ravine, although numerous journalistic reports in recent weeks have proven that the Confederation did inform both the Generalitat and the mayors throughout the day. It has also justified that the ES-Alert system of civil protection that serves to send alerts to mobile phones “was not planned”, when it has been since 2023 and has been used in Spain dozens of times already.
He did not explain the food for which he arrived late at Cecopi
But without a doubt the great black hole of Mazón’s appearance has been the absence of explanations about his agenda for Tuesday, October 29, the day that DANA devastated a good part of the province of Valencia. He president He was at a meal for three hours, incommunicado according to some media outlets, and arrived late to the Cecopi meeting, but this gap was not explained this Friday.
Mazón says that he kept his agenda “fully aware of how the situation was and knowing that the Minister of Justice and Interior, together with her team, had already traveled to some of the areas affected by the Magro flood.” According to the president of the Generalitat, went to the emergency coordination center after being aware of the risk of the Forata dam breaking and defends that the storm “extended” the car journey. “There was no need for anyone to update me, nor did I delay for one second the tasks that were being carried out,” he justified in Les Cortes Valencianes. It did not seem to convince anyone because both Vox and Compromís began their interventions with harsh criticism.
Outside the Consell, dozens of Valencians were shouting for his resignation.
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