Mazón did not arrive at the meeting due to the deadly DANA in Valencia until seven in the afternoon

The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazónargues that he kept a “working lunch” out of his official agenda on October 29, the day that the worst cold drop of the 21st century devastated the province of Valencia.

The head of the regional Executive insists on not revealing the content or who he shared the lunch with, who reiterates that it was not a recreational meeting. This same Thursday, when the controversy had already broken out, he denied that it was a private meeting or a birthday celebration: “I categorically deny it, it was a working lunch and that’s it.”

That day, with the red alert in force in the province of Valencia, the Minister of Justice and Interior, Salome Pradashad called a meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center of the Generalitat at five in the afternoon to follow up on a DANAwhich has ultimately claimed more than two hundred deaths.

When the destruction was already visible and They knew details of the first deaths by the flood, Mazon He maintained his official agenda that day. After a last meeting to address the lines of the Generalitat Budget for the year 2025 with the president of the regional employers’ association and the general secretaries of UGT and Workers’ Commissions of the Valencian Community, the regional president left the Palau de la Generalitat and attended to a restaurant in the center of the capital of Turia.

Mazón did not join the meeting of the CECOPI until seven in the afternoon, when a good part of the province of Valencia was already suffering the devastating effects of the cold drop.

The Generalitat has so far declined to specify who were the diners with whom Mazón ate in the middle of DANA. Various sources consulted by ABC In the Executive they maintain that by Law the person in charge of presiding over the CECOPI meetings is the Minister of Justice.

However, the opacity of the autonomous government about what Mazón did and with whom since the meeting with the employers and the unions ended until he joined the body that had to make decisions to protect the population from the consequences of the cold drop, they have put the president of the Generalitat.