The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazónhas denied that on October 29, DANA day, the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi), of which he has insisted that “it is not a part”, was waiting for him to make decisions because, he has stressed, “the institutional presence of the president is not necessary to make the decisions that were validly being taken in the technical body based on the information that was provided. “I insist, enough of the hoaxes, lies and manipulation,” has settled.
Given the recent versions on the matter from the Ministry of Ecological Transition, the Military Emergency Unit (UME) and the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), Mazón has asked to put an end to the “hoaxes” when considering “a lot of nervousness, manipulation and too much political attack.”
This was highlighted this Sunday, in statements to the media upon his arrival at Cecopi, where he indicated that “it was not until eight in the afternoon when the imminent possibility that the Forata dam could overflow was confirmed, and it was already prepared.” by the Cecopi technicians and, as a technical body, also the sending of the ES-Alert”.
“Therefore, in the face of so many lies, so many hoaxes, no one was waiting for me here to make a decision. It would be impossible for a president of the Generalitat to be waiting to make the technical decisions that validly constituted the Cecopi, with all its members of those who I was not partthere would be no capacity to react at all,” he stated.
He has asked “how can it be said” that he was “incommunicado” during that afternoon: “It is not true. Why do they want to establish that story? Why does it now turn out that we see another contradiction on the part of the UME, which is capable of saying that without the authorization of the Generalitat it could not be activated, it could not do anything, and at the same time, a few days later, it says that before the authorization of the Generalitat it was already operating, it was already working. What are we left with? .
“I called the mayor of Cullera at 6:28 p.m.”
“I was not incommunicado. I even spoke with the people who say I was incommunicado, such as the mayor of Cullera, at 6:28 p.m. I called him. I was not incommunicado at any time, I have not denied any food,” he added in reference to the food. who spent that day with the journalist Maribel Vilaplana to offer her the direction of À Punt, as reported last week by sources from the Presidency.
Along these lines, he stressed: “I kept my plan for the day because everyone was here readybecause everyone was validly constituted, in a body of which I am not a part. And I came to worry in person about the true risk of Forata when we were informed. And I came in person to be here too. But the body was validly constituted, it was making decisions based on the information that arrived.”
For all this, he has defended that “enough of the hoaxes and enough of the lies” because the Consell is in a recovery process to which they are “devoting themselves body and soul”: “We are street by street, town by town. We are with all the difficulties, but with all the progress that everyone is being able to see.
Asked about the statement by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, that he had enough information that day when he was eating to alert the population, Mazón explained that “the evolution of the Forata dam was what was being studied throughout moment, throughout the afternoon, until the risk of breakage was imminent”.
“If the Government has the capacity to take command and the Government has information that it can break a dam at five-thirty, why didn’t it take command? If the Government is part of Cecopi, The Government can take control whenever it wants.from the first moment,” he emphasized.
In turn, he has indicated that “if it is true that AEMET, which would be striking because AEMET is responsible for meteorology, not for dams, if it is true that the Government through AEMET thought or had information that the dam was imminent at that time, at half past five, Why didn’t he take command? “Why didn’t you force ES-Alert to be sent?” he asked, when he recalled that the central executive is part of Cecopi.
“80,000 lives were in danger”
“Do you mean that at half past five the Government already knew that it could be in danger 80,000 lives of Valencians and he didn’t take command? Why are they supposedly here, in Cecopi, in a body where they are part of the Government itself, failing or not knowing how to make decisions?”, he added.
For all this, Mazón has maintained that “the one who has to respond to this is the Government, which is falling into one contradiction after another through its entities.” “And it’s enough to deceive people, because what happened is very serious as pto be changing the story with the UME yes or with the UME no or if the president was incommunicado or not. It’s a lie. It is one of the biggest hoaxes of all this time. “I was not incommunicado,” he reiterated.
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