Feijóo insists that the Government declare a “national emergency” due to DANA and remove command from the Generalitat de Mazón

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, demanded this Monday that the Government assume command of the management of the tragedy caused last week in Valencia by a DANA and whose fatalities exceed 200. “For a declaration of national emergency, “You have our support,” said the opposition leader in a media appearance in which he did not admit questions from the journalists present. The measure, which the PP does not develop, would mean removing command from the president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, who last week contradicted his leader when he thanked the central government for its collaboration with the regional government.

“We continue to request, as we did from day one, the declaration of a national emergency,” said Feijóo. That is, the central government takes control and pushes aside Mazón, with whom it also distances itself. The president of the Valencian Generalitat has attacked the Executive of Pedro Sánchez this morning, while Feijóo has reversed what he said a week ago and has assured that now “it is time to repair and reconstitute”, not to “confront”.

Feijóo has placed himself on the sidelines of the management of the crisis, in which he has said that there are “errors”, although he has preferred not to specify them. “It is not the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. It is not the Popular Party. They are not the rest of the political parties, it is not the Government of Spain or the Generalitat of Valencia. He is not the president of the Government, nor of the Generalitat, nor, of course, is it me. It is the Spanish people. They are our Valencian compatriots. For this reason, today I am not going to fall into new criticism of the Government,” he said.

Immediately afterwards, the leader of the PP has once again disowned the Executive for not having given him information, despite the fact that he does not have any executive capacity. “My differences with the President of the Government are evident and have not been shortened these days. But it is time to deal only with the repair of what can still be repaired and the reconstruction of everything destroyed,” he maintained.

The leader of the PP has assumed in his speech that the citizen’s “outrage” over what happened before, during and after the floods should be directed at everyone equally, and that the slow and bad reaction of the authorities (without specifying) explains what occurred on Sunday during the visit of the kings, the president of the Government and Mazón himself, and where Pedro Sánchez was attacked. Feijóo has not expressly condemned said aggression.

“I am fully aware of the battered relationship of trust between the Spanish people and their politicians. “I am aware that there must be a before and after of all this,” he said. “Expressions of violence do not represent us. They have never done it nor do they do it now, and we reject it,” he stated in a vague way again. “They should address their majesties the kings, the president of the Government or the president of the Generalitat,” he added.

But he immediately asked not to “single out” “citizens.” “Of course, we are not going to be mistaken about who are really victims of all this tragedy and the feeling shared by the vast majority of Spaniards,” he said. “No one expects us to participate in any partisan story that singles out citizens for telling their truth. Enough of this story with the reality that we are suffering,” he concluded.