The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazónhas announced the creation of five immediate response groups to the DANA emergency, which will act on its behalf and will be headed by different councillors. He popular has requested the immediate incorporation of seven ministers of the Government of Spain and the chief of the Defense staff.
DANA has been of “a magnitude that no one could imagine,” Mazón stated after the meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi), which has continued for several hours. The five crisis response groups cover the areas of health, infrastructure, social services and housing, employment and business, and the Interior. Its objective is to make recovery plans to help all affected people and recover the damage caused by the floods, which have caused 211 fatalities so far.
These groups are created “in response to the offer made by President Pedro Sánchez” and in view of “the growing and undeniable needs of the moment”, and will be headed by the councilors Marciano Gómez (Health), Vicente Martínez Mus and Miguel Barrachina (Infrastructures), Susana Camarero and Ruth Merino (Social Services and Housing), José Antonio Rovira and Nuria Montes (Employment and Business) and Salomé Pradas (Interior).
Mazón has asked that the ministers join these groups to act in the face of the crisis Monica Garcia (Health), Oscar Puente (Transport), Pablo Bustinduy (Social rights), Isabel Rodriguez (Dwelling), Yolanda Diaz (Job), Carlos Body (Economy) and Fernando Grande-Marlaska (Interior), who participated in the Cecopi meeting.
Aside from the immediate response groups and given the deployment “finally” of more than 7,000 Army troopsthe president has formally asked the President of the Government to study the incorporation of the Cecopi Chief of the Defense Staffto coordinate all the tasks of the Army and to determine future military needs.
Finally, after the recent offer from the European Union, he has also asked the President of the Government to formally and before the European Union accelerate as much as possible the activation of the European Solidarity Fundand has asked that all their claims be addressed immediately.
The objective of the health group will be to develop a urgent epidemiological risk assessment planto act on prevention mechanisms against epidemiological risk. In infrastructure, the goal is the implementation of a urgent comprehensive recovery plan for the transport network and infrastructure at the national, regional, provincial and local level in the province of Valencia.
For Social Services and Housing, it has demanded urgent measures for the relocation and reconstruction of homes of those affected and immediate social assistance, among which are the granting of direct subsidies without bureaucracy for dependents or vulnerable, the mobilization of the entire state public housing stockand especially from Sareb, for rehousing, in conditions to move in, and the deferral of mortgages or personal loans of those affected.
Regarding Employment and Business, it has requested all legal instruments to implement ERTE due to force majeureas was done in the pandemic, and the same instruments for the self-employed and farmers but referring to the benefit for cessation of activity. It also asks the Government to legal authorization to implement, where possible, teleworking.
In the field of Interior, the group will act to reinforce troops and security control and access to affected areas to prevent theftlooting and looting because, he said, more troops are needed controlling and patrolling in the streets, more security from the State security forces, and “that’s how it is.” The president has requested the review and update of the Protocol of the General Directorate of Civil Protection of the Ministry of the Interior to notify and communicate meteorological and emergency alerts throughout Spain, “as recognized by the head of climatology of the State Meteorological Agency in the Valencian Community”, stated Mazón.
The Government will be in the working groups created
The Government will be in the five immediate response groups to the DANA crisis announced this Saturday by the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón. Moncloa sources have indicated that the Executive has transferred and will continue to transfer to the Valencian Country “all” human, logistical and economic resources that requires and have confirmed that the ministries requested by Mazón will participate in the Generalitat’s working groups with ministers, secretaries of State and other technicians, depending on the needs.
The same sources have recalled that, regarding the coordination of the Armed forces deployed in the area, the maximum person in charge is the General Chief of the Military Emergency Unit, Lieutenant General Francisco Javier Marcos.
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