The Ministry of the Interior denies the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, and assures that “territorial Civil Protection plans” are autonomous competence. The regional president tried to hold the central government responsible this Wednesday for the delay in alerting the population of the risks of DANA, despite the fact that his administration was the one that sent an SMS to citizens on Thursday recommending that they refrain from traveling. in the province of Valencia.
Mazón assured that the alerts that have been launched depend on the Integrated Operational Coordination Center, the location where emergency work is coordinated in the areas affected by DANA, and where they “obey the protocolized and standardized acts.” said the regional president, as reflected in the statements that have been published on his Instagram account.
“It is a previously established protocol that is also coordinated by the General Directorate of Civil Protection of the Government of Spain. It is the protocol that has been followed at all times,” said Mazón, after the criticism received after the alert sent by the Generalitat Valenciana arrived when hundreds of people were already trapped.
Given these accusations, the Interior has issued a statement to deny “erroneous information.” In that press release, Fernando Grande-Marlaska’s department assures that “the activation of territorial civil protection plans in the event of an emergency of any type and their subsequent management is the exclusive responsibility of the autonomous authorities, which are competent in the matter. according to the provisions of current legislation.” In fact, it was the Generalitat, and not the central administration, that launched an SMS alert on Tuesday at 8:12 p.m. to all residents of the community to avoid going out.
Interior explains that, according to the regulations in force, “when the competent bodies detect possible natural risks that may affect the population, property, infrastructure, cultural heritage and the like, they issue notices to the autonomous Civil Protection bodies, which receive these alerts. , carry out a risk analysis and evaluate its possible consequences.”
Based on these analyses, “the regional Civil Protection authorities activate the corresponding alerts, which may involve the activation of different plans depending on the type of risk”, for example, “forest fires, seismic movements, floods, adverse meteorological phenomena “, praises the Ministry.
Once the regional authorities have activated “the emergency phase of their territorial Civil Protection plans”, several operational situations can be decreed that extend, depending on the case, to the municipal or regional level.
Given the DANA that has hit some regions of the Valencian Community, “sending this massive alert to the population was the responsibility of the Generalitat, as the governments of the autonomous communities of Madrid and Andalusia already did in past emergencies of similar characteristics,” Interior ruling, in response to Mazón’s accusations.
With the aim of avoiding this intersection of accusations in a tragedy that has caused the death of nearly a hundred people, the Interior calls on all regional and local administrations affected by DANA to join forces and protect the population.
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