The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazónhas denied that during the communication he had with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, During the night of Tuesday, October 29, I told him that the situation DANA It was under control and he has assured that what it conveyed to him was that it was necessary to “coordinate as much as possible” to manage the possible consequences of the catastrophe.
As ABC published last Fridaythe coordination between the central Executive and the regional Government was carried out with a certain normality during the first stages of the tragedy. Sánchez was informed by his cabinet about the seriousness of the situation and, while traveling back from India, he sent them a Whatsapp around 11:00 p.m. both Mazón and the rest of the regional leaders affected by the storm.
Asked this Tuesday about this conversation at the end of the Cecopi meeting, Mazón confirmed that he received a message from the president during the DANA night. When questioned about some published information about the content of that conversation, the head of the Consell has denied having conveyed that the situation was under control and has added, twice, that what he conveyed was that “had to be coordinated as much as possible».
As this newspaper reported, the first vice president, María Jesús Montero, previously called Mazón to inform him that she was “aware” of the situation and that she was at his disposal. «President, calm down, whatever is needed. “We do everything that needs to be done,” they say, were the terms of the communication from the Generalitat.
In that conversation, according to the same sources, the regional president asked Montero to deploy the Civil Guard and the Army, to which the vice president replied that he should count on it and be calm, while she was accompanied by the Interior Ministers. and Defense, Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Margarita Robles.
The Government delegate in the Valencian Community has also been asked about this issue, Pilar Bernabewho has refused to make any statements: “I am not going to make assessments or statements of what happened because it will be done where it belongs and where it corresponds.”
Mazón and CECOPI
In parallel, the vice president of the Consell and minister of Social Services, Equality and Housing, Susana Camarero, has maintained that Mazón is not part “in any case” of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (CECOPI) and has clarified that “you do not need to wait to make a decision” in this body, which “works with or without your presence because it is not necessary.” However, he has indicated that he has been going “because of the importance of the situation” generated by DANA.
In this sense, he has denied that at the meeting of this body on the afternoon of October 29 – DANA day – the head of the Consell was “waiting” to make decisions. «I don’t think anyone was waiting and, furthermore, we did not have to wait for him to make a decision,” he stressed.
Likewise, he pointed out that the decisions of the CECOPI “are made by the bodies that make up the CECOPI”, which is why he stressed that the president of the Generalitat “does not need to be waited to make a decision.” “It does not have to be expected,” he insisted, at a press conference this Tuesday to report on the actions carried out in the areas affected by DANA.
Expressly asked if Mazón is part of CECOPI, Susana Camarero has assured that it has “been clear” that in “no case” and has indicated that the command of this body is structured in the protocol that regulates it. Furthermore, he pointed out that other institutions such as the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation (CHJ).
Camarero has stressed that during these weeks the head of the Consell has attended the CECOPI meetings for “the importance of the situation«. “We have been there and all the people we have been able to help in this emergency phase and in this moment of reconstruction of the situation have been incorporated,” the vice president clarified.
«There are only two days left to have the possibility of hearing the appearance where everything that happened on the 29th will be detailed, every hour, every message, every calleach information received and, therefore, how we acted from there,” explained the Valencian leader.
What happened on October 29
In this regard, regarding Thursday’s appearance in the Valencian parliament, Camarero has recognized the importance of “telling what happened on the 29th” but also to report on “how the structure of the Consell is going to be remodeled” in order to face the “new reality” after DANA.
«We had an administrative structure for normality and now we have to have one for this new situation added for reconstruction, which is what we are in. We are talking about the how and not the who», explained the vice president.
Camarero has reiterated that all the councilors are “at the disposal of the president”, who is the person who “has to make the decisions that must be made regarding the people, but also the times.” «He will be the one who announces what the new structure is like and what decisions it adopts.», he has settled.
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