The dismissal of Nuria Montes opens the dance of faces in the Generalitat

The departure of Nuria Montes – with a profile more linked to tourism promotion – from the regional Executive had been taken for granted for days. His lack of empathy in statements addressed to the victims of the tragedy, for which she had to apologize, placed her in the spotlight. «Here bodies will not be delivered to families, relatives will not be allowed access to the area where we have all the deceased in custody, so they have to wait for the call from the court and the delivery of the relevant documentation. . The best place for families to wait for news from their relatives is at their homes,” he pointed out at the doors of the Feria Valencia morgue.

She was also targeted by the testimony of an official from her Department who, after losing her husband and daughter in the flood, accused her of not having called her to give her condolences up to a week later. Nuria Montes’ team defended that they had not been aware of what happened until the day before that communication.

At the moment, there have only been two significant movements within the Valencian Government, after the vice president and councilor of Social Services, Equality and Housing, Susana Camarero, has relieved Ruth Merino, also head of the Treasury, as spokesperson. The new obligations of Camarero, who has been acting de facto as representative of the Executive before the media since the emergency began, were confirmed on Sunday at seven thirty in the afternoon also through a statement. «It is this task that has been entrusted to me and no other. “I would never say no to the president,” Camarero asserted yesterday to deny that he had refused to head the new Vice Presidency for Economic and Social Reconstruction.

This transversal area created by Mazón will be added to the one announced Department of Emergencies and Interior. Precisely, the head of Justice and Interior, Salomé Pradas, said goodbye to her colleagues in the Valencian Cortes on Friday, given the likelihood that she will be the next person to be dismissed.

To Pradas, with emergency powers and president of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi), errors in the management of the catastrophe are blamed on him. Mazón limited himself to highlighting yesterday the “professionalism” and “capacity” of the new profiles that will make up the Consell, whom he described as “prepared people.”