The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazónhas once again defended his management against the catastrophic DANA last Tuesday, October 29, alluding that “everyone was doing their job” and “everyone was where they had to be”, while doubts grow due to its different version changes and multiple contradictions, as well as the late reaction to confront the greatest tragedy the region has ever faced. In this regard, the ‘popular’ leader has avoided talking about political responsibilitiesalthough he acknowledges that “they will play in due course.”
In an address to À Punt this Saturday at the entrance to the Emergency Coordination Center in l’Eliana, the head of the Consell maintained that “he was promptly informed, as in any other storm alert”, during a day in which there was no He canceled his institutional agenda and had a working lunch with the journalist Maribel Vilaplana to offer him the possibility of directing the regional television itself, while the storm was already flooding different municipalities.
Mazon He insisted that on Tuesday the 29th “there were two completely different days” that are explained in “the difference between a storm and a flood.” Thus, he has argued that the initial forecast was for storms and that “unfortunately we have had many” red alerts in the Valencian Community.
Regarding this, he pointed out that Aemet warned of a maximum of 180 liters per square meter. “That would have been a normal storm,” he alludes while defending that Cecopi was constituted “at all times” and that “punctually followed all the information». “It’s not that it was an ordinary day, it was a day in which we were pending the evolution of the rains,” he clarified.
“Everything changes from 7 p.m.,” said Mazón, who added that when the storm turns into a flood, “when the Confederation of the Ministry tells us that from 7 p.m. that all this hydrological revolution, all that channel “It had overflowed, that’s when everything changes.” “Until that moment what we were informed about was punctually, with a working lunch and then in the unit’s office,” he declared.
However, the crossing of versions about the management during critical hours between the Generalitat and the Government do not coincide. The third vice president of the Government and minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, confessed in an interview on Cadena Ser that she managed to speak with Mazón after four unsuccessful callscarried out around 7:30 p.m.
“Some missed calls” and no coverage
By allusions, the Alicante leader assures that it was not before 8 p.m. in any case and that what he received was an SMS, although he does not deny that there could be “any missed calls” and they hide behind the fact that in the CECOPI “there was no coverage.” Thus, he defends that the minister’s communication came after sending the massive alert, “after the flood warning”, while it is “essential” to be able to “clarify” the conversations held with the socialist vice president “during that day and during the previous days.
Mazón has disgraced Ribera for not being interested in the DANA situation that has affected several towns in the province of Valencia “until 8:00 p.m.” last Tuesday, October 29. «I would ask the minister: Did the flood warning have to come? Did the alert have to come?», he questioned.
Political responsibilities
Asked about the future of the Minister of the Interior, Salomé Pradas, Mazón maintained that “political responsibilities will come at a later time,” while now “it is about rebuilding.” «The time for responsibilities will surely comebut now to get into controversies, I believe that now the entire Valencian government and all administrations are working to improve the recovery of people’s lives at forced rates,” he expressed.
Along the same lines, he has insisted that “there will certainly be time” to analyze “those two days in one on the 29th: before 7 p.m. and after, which was when everything changed, the hydrological revolution devastated so much.” “There will be time for political responsibilities,” he reiterated, while adding that now, in his opinion, “responsibility is exercising it, it is working, it is coordinating all the teams.”
Hoaxes and demonstration
The president recalled that on Thursday he will appear in the Valencian Parliament at his own request and has defended that “this is not the time to engage in politics, or to continue with hoaxes, or accusations.” “The focus has to be on recovery,” he concluded. Thus, he has stated that he believes that “we should not accuse people based on hoaxes.” «I have had to deny that I was at a birthday party with one of my counselors. It’s just that I have read tremendous things about my situation. And I believe that it is not fair and that it is even miserable to interpose shadows of doubt on issues that have nothing to do with this,” he said.
About the manifestation convened this afternoon in several cities of the Valencian Community, under the slogan ‘Mazón resignation’, he stressed that the right to demonstrate is “a constitutional right.” “We have to respect him,” he expressed, and asserted that he “always” has respected the demonstrations. Although he has pointed out that “it seems” that this protest “comes with some political call.” «But I’ll leave it to the organizers. “I respect everything,” he concluded.
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