Pedro Sánchez has gone from veiled criticism of Carlos Mazón in his first intervention this Wednesday in Congress to now entering his turn to respond to the rag of the head-on collision to which Alberto Núñez Feijóo has invited him, who has come to accuse the president of “lack of humanity” and the Government of incurring crimes of prevarication and omission of relief. After announcing a new aid package of more than 2,000 million euros and defending the actions of his Government, Sánchez has for the first time publicly launched express criticism of the president of the Valencian Generalitat, whom he has held directly responsible for the consequences of the catastrophe. .
“It is not the autonomous system that has failed, but rather the political leaders with denialist speeches. You have made reference to that proposal for a motion of censure,” he told the Compromís spokesperson, to warn her: “But that does not break the parliamentary majority of the PP with Vox. Making a motion of censure to change Mazón and create a denialist majority is not the solution. “It is important to question Mr. Feijóo to see if he once and for all accepts what has been said and we can all remove the person primarily responsible for this catastrophe, who is Mr. Mazón,” he said.
Although the president had promised to postpone the political fight over the management of DANA, the serious accusations launched by Feijóo in his first turn to speak have caused a change of script in the Moncloa strategy, which has gone on the offensive to hold directly responsible the leader of the PP to protect his fellow ranks and to expose the negligence of the Generalitat.
“When we have heard Mr. Feijóo talk about climate change, it has been to talk about climate fanaticism. “You have supported governments with denialist parliamentary majorities,” Sánchez responded to the leader of the PP, reminding him how his party once opposed the creation of the Military Emergency Unit. “When Zapatero created the EMU Rajoy said that this was an idea. Today no one doubts that they provide a vital service. But we saw Mazón with his bullfighter vice president strut and describe the Valencian emergency unit as a beach bar.”
The leader of the Executive has personally referred to Feijóo to ask him about his fellow member of the ranks. “He has not mentioned Mr. Mazón and asks me to declare the emergency and separate him. What are we left with? If you think Mr. Mazón is doing it so badly, why don’t you demand that he resign?”
Sánchez has directly accused Feijóo of lying with his criticism of the obscurantism of the AEMET or the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation.
Let’s analyze what each of us has done in this tragedy: what you have done is lie to try to break the trust of citizens in the institutions. You appeared on October 30 in Valencia and removed the president of the cecopi to attack the UME and the AEMET. “We have an opposition that gives more credibility to a confessed criminal than to the AEMET. This is the PP that we suffer. Create hoaxes, throw mud. “You say that the Hydrographic Confederation did not provide information: that is a lie,” he criticized.
Sánchez has defended throughout his appearance that the Government fulfilled its obligation and that the Generalitat “had plenty of information.” “To say that he was blindfolded is to insult the truth and the intelligence of the citizens. “You are outraged because the Secretary of State for the Environment was in Colombia at the United Nations Biodiversity Summit, but you have not yet demanded that Mr. Mazón explain where he was incommunicado for those four hours,” he added.
During his first intervention, Sánchez announced that the Government will promote a third package of aid measures for those affected by DANA in Valencia in the extraordinary Council of Ministers that will be held this Thursday. The president has announced “a third package with 60 measures designed to accelerate the return to normality and the recovery of the areas hit by this tragedy.”
“This new package will consist of new aid, credit instruments and legal facilities of various types, for a total value of 2,274 million euros. And it will have three main objects: citizens, the vehicle fleet, and the productive fabric,” Pedro Sánchez has advanced.
The president has detailed aid of 19 million euros to cover “expenses for replacing textbooks and school or study materials for students and families with student children who reside in the affected municipalities.
In addition, the Executive will also carry out a plan to renew the vehicle fleet damaged by DANA, a measure that has amounted to 465 million euros and which, as it has defended, “will allow citizens who need to buy a vehicle to receive a direct aid of up to 10,000 euros, which will not have to be returned, and which can be added to the compensation that the Insurance Compensation Consortium dependent on the Government of Spain is already beginning to pay.”
This third phase of the measures implemented by the central government for those affected by DANA also includes a new line of 1,200 million “so that the self-employed and industrial and tourist companies can repair their facilities, equipment and stocks of products, and can make new investments.”
“We will enable a fast track for preferential financing of reconstruction operations and recovery of innovative and technological capacities in the affected areas. And, in the commercial field, we will launch a line of 240 million for the reactivation of local commerce, with aid aimed at alleviating material damage to goods affected by businesses, and another ICEX line aimed at facilitating the internationalization of the activity of companies affected by the DANA”, the president continued.
The president has pointed out that his Government is “open” to the creation of an investigative commission in Congress to address this matter. “A commission to which we must invite public servants, academics and members of civil society. And in which I myself will participate, convinced that this accountability is something that we owe to the victims, to future generations and to ourselves,” he noted.
Feijóo attacks Sánchez for “lack of humility and humanity”
In his turn to speak, the opposition leader began by apologizing “to those who believe that politics has not lived up to the circumstances or the people” but he did not hesitate to clash with the president of the Government throughout its intervention. “They seem to have done everything for the victims but until then they only made political calculations. This time he miscalculated. People are not going to forgive him for not exercising his powers, for his abandonment. “You should no longer be here,” he began to shoot.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has gone so far as to discredit the president for traveling to India “with an accused woman,” in reference to the Prime Minister’s partner. “What a lack of humanity and what a lack of humility,” snapped the PP leader, who even hinted that the central Executive could have committed crimes.
“Is prevarication by omission a crime? Is omission another crime? Why didn’t you declare the alarm? Because he didn’t want to or because they didn’t let him? They should have declared the emergency and they know it because it affected several communities. Or were the seven deaths in Castilla-La Mancha the responsibility of the Valencian president? “Or do you not care about these presidents?” asked Feijóo, who in no case made any reference to the hours in which his colleague, the Valencian president Carlos Mazón, was unreachable for a working lunch during the most critical hours of the tragedy.
Abascal talks about the “criminal mud against Sánchez”
The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has once again defined Pedro Sánchez as a “criminal”, whom he has accused of persecuting and detaining the DANA victims. “But, by God, the first very personal order that Pedro Sánchez gave to send police was to send police to arrest people,” he stated.
“Those Spaniards who threw mud,” Abascal said in reference to the reception that the kings, Sánchez and Carlos Mazón, experienced in Paiporta, “in reality they were only returning the mud in which they had been submerging this nation for years.” “The mud Pedro Sánchez. The murderous mud of Valencia. It is their own mud,” said the leader of the far-right party.
Sumar requests that airport expansions be stopped
In turn, Sumar spokesperson, Verónica Martínez, has described climate change as an emergency for “national security.” “Climate change and denialism kill,” he said during his reply to the President of the Government. Martínez has taken the opportunity to reproach the PSOE for the fact that after a catastrophe like the one in Valencia they are still betting on the expansion of airports. “Do you really think it’s time to expand the port of Valencia, or the airports of Madrid or El Prat? We cannot continue to sustain the unsustainable, we must look to the future by offering overall solutions that take these challenges into account. And these solutions always go through public services,” he defended.
Martínez has asked Alberto Núñez Feijóo to request the resignation of the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, for his management of DANA. “Assume your responsibility as leader of the PP and request the resignation of Mr. Carlos Mazón. “His lies have been exposed, his negligence is more than evident,” he said from the tribune of Congress.
If not, he has predicted, his leadership will go down in history for being the one who “protected, defended and supported the president of Ventorro”, in reference to the hours in which the president spent a meal, incommunicado, on the day of the catastrophe. “So sad,” he said. “The mud and rot of Mazón’s management are already at the door of Génova Street, and you are the first to know it,” he concluded.
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