The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazónhas insisted that was “promptly informed” of everything that happened last Tuesday the 29th when DANA began to wreak havoc in Valencia while eating with the journalist Maribel Vilaplanato whom at that time he offered the management of the regional public channel À Punt.
“Everyone was presiding over Cecopi and I was promptly informedlike in any other storm alert,” he stressed. Mazón defended that “everyone was here doing their job; “Everyone was where they needed to be.”
In this sense, he highlighted the “difference between a storm and a flood.” In this regard, he pointed out that on the 29th “we experienced two completely different days”, “two days in one”, since the initial forecast was for storms, “for red alerts at levels that we have had on other days.”
“Like many storm forecasts that we unfortunately have here,” he compared, while pointing out that “Aemet itself spoke of a maximum of 180 -liters per square meter-. That would have been a normal storm” and that Cecopi was constituted “at all times” and he “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 the head of the Consell, who added: 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, “That whole channel had overflowed, that’s when everything changes.” “Until that moment what we were doing was punctually informed, with a working lunch and then in the unit’s office,” he declared.
Mazón clashes with Vice President Teresa Ribera
Mazon has reproached the third vice president of the Government and minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Riberawho “was not interested in the situation” of the DANA 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.
“Before 8 p.m. we did not have any reference from her, nor from any senior official. How can you say that she was trying to contact you if until 8 p.m. I did not have an SMS from her, maybe with some missed callsbut never before 8 p.m.,” the head of the Consell insisted this Saturday in statements to À Punt at the entrance to the Emergency Coordination Center, reported by Europa Press.
This is how Mazón expressed himself after this Friday Ribera assured, in an interview on Cadena Ser, that He managed to speak with the president of the Generalitat Valenciana after calling him “four times”once he perceived the “concern” in Cecopi about the “difficulty” in decision-making and the “seriousness of the situation”. After calling him four times, according to his version, he contacted Mazón around 7:30 p.m., who assured him “that everything was going well but this afternoon everything was rushed.”
The head of the Consell has assured that he saw the SMS sent by the minister “later”, when he had already moved to ‘112 CV’, located in L’Eliana, where, he noted, “there was no coverage.” He has reiterated that Ribera contacted him “after the alert, after the flood warning”, while maintaining that it is “fundamental” to be able to “clarify” the conversations held with Ribera “during that day and during the previous days”.
The meeting with Maribel Vilaplana
At this point, and asked about the meeting he held from 3:00 p.m. that Tuesday with the journalist Maribel Vilaplana In a restaurant in Valencia, the head of the Consell has defended that that Tuesday was “a work day with a work agenda.” “In the morning there was a work agenda, there was a working lunch with people who had nothing to do with all this,” he maintained, and stated that “during” and “after” that “meal previously established to talk about the future of television” was “informed of the developments” of DANA.
“But until 7 p.m. it was impossible, because until 7 p.m. the Confederation of the Government did not tell us what it was becoming. That revolution that changed everything so tremendously for us,” he added.
However, he has claimed that “what the Consell is in” from the beginning “is “in the reconstruction, with the roads, with the people, with the volunteers, with the food.” “This is what is important now. This is what we have to be about and not in very low, very ugly insinuations, which are being heard probably because some want to exempt some blame or with some political interests that I think are not really acceptable” , has valued.
Carlos Mazón has stated that he believes that “we should not go accusing 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.
Likewise, He has once again said that on Tuesday he was “punctually informed”despite being in “a situation of great lack of communication, because “the main telephone terminals were already beginning to fall.” “What I think does not make sense is to enter into such malicious hoaxes,” he lamented, to assert that “Nobody deserves these things and people don’t deserve them.”
The demonstration with the slogan ‘Mazón resignation’
About the demonstration called this afternoon in several cities in the Valencian Countryunder the slogan ‘Mazón resignation’, has stressed that the right to demonstrate is “a constitutional right.” “We have to respect it,” 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.
Later, in statements to the media also at the Emergency Coordination Center, when questioned about the future of the Minister of the Interior, Salome PradasMazón has maintained that “political responsibilities will come to pass in due course“, while now “it is about rebuilding.”
“I don’t want to get into controversies with anyone, but if someone says that they were calling me all afternoon and I don’t have calls from that person or messages until 8 p.m., well, that’s what I want to say,” he stated in reference to Teresa Ribera.
“The time for responsibilities will surely come, but now to get into controversies, I believe that now the entire Valencian government and all administrations are working to improve at forced rates the recovery of people’s lives,” he expressed.
Along the same lines, he 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.” At the same time, he added that now, in his opinion, “the responsibility is to exercise it, it is to work, it is to coordinate all the teams.”
The head of the Consell recalled that on Thursday he will appear in Les Corts at his own request and has defended that “this is not the time for politics, nor for continuing with hoaxes, nor for accusations.” “The focus has to be on recovery,” he concluded.
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