Francisco José Gan Pampols has jumped to the front line today with the announcement of his appointment as vice president for Economic and Social Reconstruction of the Valencian Generalitat. However, he is no stranger to the media. A retired lieutenant general, he was a regular on the screens to address in an educational way issues related to geopolitics and the Armed Forces. This experience is what ensures that he will now be put at the service of the recovery of Valencia after the havoc caused by DANA, avoiding all partisan debate with an end date. “I have an advantage: I am not a politician, I don’t expect anything from politics and as soon as it’s over I’m going home, which is where I’m happiest,” he says, leaving a second issue clear, his task begins now and he doesn’t want to value anything the management carried out to date.- How did you decide to accept this responsibility? Well, it has a poetic beginning but it is something that every soldier has internalized. One of the verses of Calderón’s poem referring to the Army says: “Here the most important feat is to obey and the way it should be is neither to ask nor to refuse.” All of us in the military learn that and we have internalized it all our lives. So I never asked but I can’t refuse something because it is a spirit of service. If you swear to defend Spain, it does not expire. Standard Related News If you live and applaud the Kings in Chiva: “They are not to blame for anything and their visit gives us strength” Angie Calero- Do you then assume this work as another service to Spain and the Spanish? That’s right. Exclusively. My work is not at all aimed at improving an image, at generating a profit, at all. It is aimed at solving a very serious problem that my compatriots are suffering, returning their living conditions as soon as possible, generating hope and a future. – How did you get here? When did Carlos Mazón contact you? Last week. The president called me, I had an interview with him. I explained to him what I was not, what I was not expecting, he accepted my points of view and I said yes. – What were those conditions? The conditions are that the work that I am going to do is outside the scope of discussion and confrontation. political, because it is technical in nature; that it needed a basic consensus between the main parties to take public and political debate off the issue of reconstruction; that regarding the technical aspect, all suggestions and indications were admitted, but that there could be neither technical nor partisan indications. And the last was to allow me to choose a team among those people with whom we could truly unite a team and carry out this task. – Even though you want to distance yourself from that political debate, you are part of a Government. Are you prepared to deal with the confrontation that sometimes presides over the institutions? If I limit it exclusively to the area of reconstruction, yes. “I have asked that I not be considered a member of the party, which I am not” – Beyond That will not accept any contest? I have accepted this position understanding that I have a political responsibility in the field of reconstruction. As for the rest, I have obviously asked that I not be considered a member of the party, which I am not. – The position is called vice presidency for Economic and Social Recovery, an objective that now seems distant. How do you propose the task? The basic plan is to try to normalize as soon as possible. There is one aspect that should be highlighted, and that is that right now they are still in an emergency situation, they are operating in an emergency situation with alert level 2 and elements that are trying to recover the minimum conditions, the basics. From that moment, when the emergency de-escalates, the reconstruction work will begin. What do I want to achieve? First, solve the problem of people, of those who have lost things, of the self-employed so that they can recover their productive capacity. They cannot feel helpless and they have to have a way to earn a living because otherwise they will leave. And if that capacity is lost it cannot be recovered. We must attack the industrial part, the loss of productive capacity must be recovered as soon as possible because it is the element that attracts the most population to the territory because it is the one that guarantees living conditions. Infrastructure must be provided so that these companies have the possibility of recovering normality. And parallel to this and from the beginning, a prevention and protection plan must be started because these phenomena will be repeated, these phenomena are recurrent. There is no point in waiting until next summer to see what happens, but rather it has to be done now. That is not only autonomous administration, it is also General State Administration. – Do you hope to be able to overcome the differences between administrations? I believe that if there is no generosity in the approach and high-mindedness in this, the result will be enormously adverse for those who do not be able to understand it. Because public opinion is one thing and published opinion is another. In the end, everyone knows where they have been squeezed and who has helped them. – Do you set an end date for this responsibility? Have you come to politics to stay or do you plan to retire when the reconstruction is over? In no case do I foresee staying in the world of politics. My firm commitment from now on is that as soon as this is underway, not finished, up and running, with all the coordination, control, direction models established, and each of the tasks in operation, I am leaving.- And I know He will go with the hope of having managed to distance the reconstruction from the political conflict. That’s right. I will appear at my own request before the Courts, I will explain who I am and what I am about. I want to understand that there will be enough height of vision to understand what I’m going for. I suppose there will be those who will criticize frontally and shoot. I don’t care so much about that but rather that the majority of Valencians accept that someone like me who is outside of politics intervenes in this and does it the way I am going to do it. – Given the magnitude of the tragedy, do you foresee a long time? task of reconstruction? I can’t tell you, I would like to say a deadline but it is impossible because these recovery models are subject to the evolution of everyday life. We are going to make a plan that will be developed into programs that will have an execution model. But between the economic resource, the human resource, the material availability,… you have to be realistic. What you cannot do is despair, what you cannot do is not do it because it is complex. Tenacity is water, that destructive capacity must be used productively, in drilling a stone when necessary. «Difficult tasks are a privilege of the position. “I will take them because permissiveness is part of what we are seeing.” – You will have to make some decision that will be controversial or not particularly applauded by citizens, such as the decision to prohibit construction in some places. Do you have a firm will to do so? Difficult decisions are the privilege of rank. I will take them because hydrologists, civil engineers, watershed and construction specialists tell me that they are lands on which construction is not allowed. It is not authorizing or not authorizing, it is that it is prohibited. It’s over. We must act once and for all because permissiveness is part of what we are seeing. – There has been a lot of controversy about the role of the Armed Forces. How do you rate his performance? Could something have been done differently? No evaluation, no comments. My situation starts from this moment and I look forward. – Will your military capabilities help the recovery? I have no doubt. In our training model, the commitment to make informed decisions, to control the situation, to have situational awareness, to surround oneself with the best people to have the best advice and end up deciding, with the necessary speed, not delay, paralysis by analysis; all that is military. And then, the spirit of service. I have an advantage: I am not a politician, I don’t expect anything from politics and as soon as it’s over I’m going home, which is where I am happiest.
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