The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazónhas demanded this Monday from the Government of Spain a first aid package of 31,402 million euros to apply 136 measures of a recovery plan aimed at rebuild, relaunch and alleviate the effects of DANA in the province of Valencia. A figure that is just over 100 million euros from the consolidated budget of the Generalitat for the year 2024 (31,521,907,930 euros).
This was stated in an institutional appearance at the Palau de la Generalitat after the extraordinary meeting of the plenary session of the Consell that was held this Monday afternoon, after the president of his party, Alberto Núñez Feijóohas demanded the declaration of a national emergency, an issue to which it has not referred.
Mazón has stated that all institutions must have “a single objective” and it is not a time for “calculations”, but rather it is “the time for answers, for resources, for facts” to recover the future, and he has stated that he is aware of all “indignation” and “rage” there is, but we have to work together looking for “solutions and certainties.”
Among the aid that it requests from the Government, it asks to complete with 15,000 euros the aid of 6,000 euros that the Generalitat is going to give to each affected person who has lost their home due to the damage for its reconstruction or rehabilitation, and 1,464 million to help purchase vehicles and complete the benefits of the Insurance Consortium.
It also requests the payment of dependency benefits and Valencian inclusion income to help the most vulnerable, as well as a double extra payment for those most affected, with a total of 65 million eurosand a line of aid for the immediate reconstruction of public infrastructure of 2,687 million euros.
Mazón has also requested aid for the reconstruction of industrial areas and industrial estates, aid of 7 billion eurosand that all the works to adapt the channels are carried out to avoid, prevent and anticipate possible future floods, for an amount of 2,200 million euros.
All of the measures will now be sent to the Government, explained Mazón, who has indicated that their implementation is “imperative” to alleviate material damage, prevent future catastrophes and guarantee the safety of a population in an area. “recurrently vulnerable to these types of events”.
The president has expressly addressed all Valencians who these days “so bitter, so difficult and so painful for everyone” have shown to the world solidarity, generosity and empathy by taking to the streets to help, and thanked them for their “citizenship lesson.”
“Reality is not a story, reality is what it is, and we face that reality without turning our backs on it” and “looking at it in the face,” said Mazón, who has assured that “no matter how intense the pain is” and ” As long, hard and complex as the path ahead may seem, this “collective challenge” will be faced.
As he said, just like in the Valencian flood of 1957, the Tous swamp of 1982 or the flood in Vega Baja of 2019, the Valencians will get back on their feet and demonstrate “how far the fortitude of the Valencian society”.
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