Mazón goes on the offensive against the Government despite the data that refutes his story

The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazónattributes responsibility for the management of the crisis caused by DANA in Valencia to the central government. This is what he declared this Monday when he threw the ball out and blamed the Hydrographic Confederationwhich is under the Ministry of Ecological Transitiondirected by Teresa Riberathat many citizens continued with their normal lives at the time of the catastrophe.

Mazón has insisted that this organization deactivated the overflow risk alert on three occasions last Tuesday, specifically at 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. and “it was not until 6:45 p.m., after two hours without information from the confederation, when we were warned that ‘be careful, everything has changed.'”

For their part, sources from the Hydrographic Confederation have responded to the accusations and have clarified that Its competence is not to issue alerts“since that function falls to the regional emergency services.” They indicate that they provide two types of updated information: automatic rainfall data and channel levels. “Both data sets are updated automatically and are accessible for consultation by the competent bodies“, they say.

Sources from the Hydrographic Confederation assure that they cannot issue alerts or deactivate them as Mazón claims.

With all this, They deny Mazón’s statementspointing out that, since hydrographic confederations do not issue alerts, They also do not have the ability to deactivate them. In this case, they point out that it was the Emergency Coordination Center the one that launched the Hydrological Alert at 12:30 on Tuesday. Despite this, The alert reached the phones of Valencians at 7:45 p.m..

Mazon He has also blamed the military commanders. He explained that, after requesting help, they are the ones who evaluate whether it is necessary to deploy more troops. According to the president, this decision does not fall on politicians nor does it require “any political slogan,” since the military teams act ex officio. However, he acknowledged that in these days “operational errors, decisions that have arrived late or have not been correct“.

Aemet activated the alert early in the morning

Regarding the message he published on Tuesday on the social network provided at that time by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). He decided to eliminate it to avoid “confusion”, since the weather situation had changed drastically and the information had become “out of date” throughout the day.

Despite The AEMET had activated the red alert early in the morningMazón has downplayed its importance: “In this community there is either a drought or a red alert; people are used to the red alert“.

Regarding the altercations that occurred on Sunday in Paiporta during his visit with the kings and the president of the Government of Spain, he commented that it was not the first time that he was in that municipality, considered “ground zero” of the DANA. He has assured that he perceived an atmosphere of pain and anger, but has emphasized the importance of “coming forward” and offering explanations to citizens. He has also assured that He found the visit of Felipe VI and Letizia “very appropriate” and “reasonable”: “It seems very good to me that (the king) wants to go be close to the people,” he said.