Feijóo says that Mazón has assumed “self-criticism” and that “he will have to make decisions”

The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, granted his first interview this Tuesday since the DANA devastated the province of Valencia. The leader of the opposition, focused on blaming the Government for the catastrophehas accused the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation of “negligence” and describes the management of the Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, as “regrettable.”

At the same time, the president of the PP does not want to be tied to Carlos Mazón and also points out: “He is not apart from Cecopi, which does not mean in any case that he is the first person in charge of the Generalitat”, said in the ‘Espejo’ program. Public’, of Antenna 3. He president He tried to justify his absence from the emergency coordination center on Tuesday afternoon by arguing that he was not part of it and that he was “perfectly constituted.”

According to Feijóo, the Valencian baron has assumed “self-criticism” in his Government and it is his turn “make decisions”. He has also spoken of “failures” of the president of the Generalitat that, he noted, he will explain in his appearance this Thursday at the Consell.

“That’s what the president is for, to make decisions, to govern and not to delegate,” says the president of the PP.

Feijóo has insisted that the Government should have declared a national emergency, even stating that if the Government were in the hands of the PSOE, its behavior would have been “different.” The president of the PP has revealed that on Thursday, October 31, during his visit to Valencia, he gave Mazón his “opinion” on this and that his response was that he would talk about it with Pedro Sánchez later.

He president of the Generalitat aligned itself with the Government and never asked to raise the level of emergency and hand over the hand of management to the central Executive. Feijóo has said that he would have done it as regional president.

Feijóo charges against the Government

However, the opposition leader wants to hold the government agencies responsible for the catastrophe and save the image of a community governed by the PP. Feijóo no longer points only to the AEMET, as at first, but to the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation. “Hey, what’s the alert? But if the person who has to alert you from four-fifteen in the afternoon doesn’t give you information again until a quarter to seven,” Feijóo criticized.

He has also excused Mazón by assuring that when he left his office, towards the meal where he spent more than three hours, he did so with “information” from the Confederation and that, furthermore, he was “connected.” As it progressed The Confidentialhis delay in joining the meeting and the counselor’s doubts Salome Pradas They slowed down decisions.

For the president of the PP, “only” Teresa Ribera knew what could happen and yet “it turns out that she is still in Brussels and calls the president of the Autonomous Community at 8:00 p.m..” The Spanish PP will vote against her appointment as vice president of the European Commission.

Asked if Mazón should not have warned the population taking into account that the AEMET activated the red alert at seven in the morning, Feijóo put himself in profile: “Let Mazón give the explanations he considers appropriate on Thursday and let’s judge what he says”.