Mazón spreads an SMS to try to embarrass Teresa Ribera after she said that it took her four calls to locate her on the afternoon of DANA

The president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has released a screenshot of an SMS from Teresa Ribera sent at 8:20 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29, DANA day, to try to convey the idea that the third vice president of the Government is not contacted him until that time. Mazón tries to respond in this way to an interview in which Ribera explained that she was unable to contact him until she called him for the fourth time.

In the SMS that Mazón spreads, the minister tells him that they are “pending and worried” and asks him to tell her “anything” that the Government can “help” with. “The president of the CHJ is restless but driving with maximum caution. Marlaska and civil protection in it. Aemet following evolution,” she tells him. Mazón shared it on Twitter with the message: “Enough manipulation. This SMS [se mandó] at 8:20 p.m. after sending the alert and without coverage at Cecopi. “That’s what happened.”

But, in reality, that message from Ribera came after he tried to call him without success on three occasions, between 7:35 p.m. and until 8:20 p.m. He did it through his secretary, Moncloa’s telegraphic office and his chief of staff, according to Ministry sources. At that moment, in the absence of a response, Ribera sent him that SMS. Later, his team manages to locate the president through the mobile phone of someone who was next to him and who physically passes it to him. In his tweet, Mazón does not make any reference to the vice president’s calls, but he does assure that he was “without coverage.”

The controversy began after the Deputy Secretary of Institutional Affairs of the PP and Vice President of the European Parliament, Esteban González Pons, stated that Ribera was absent from the management of DANA and “was not on the crisis committee improvised by Moncloa.” The minister responded hours later, through an interview from Hora 25to defend his management and say that he called Mazón after during the Cecopi meeting people from the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation warned that they were blocked.

“They called the Secretary of State, he notified me and it took me up to four calls to locate Mr. Mazón (…) It was a short conversation: President, what happened, how can we help you and what do you want us to do? He told me: ”the situation was going well, but it got out of hand this afternoon. “Forgive me, I’ll call you in 10 minutes.” That was the conversation we had. Logically, he did not call me again, which I understood perfectly,” was the minister’s explanation on Cadena SER.

During the afternoon, after Pons’ accusations, the team of the Minister of Ecological Transition insisted that she was in Brussels on October 29 but “working and contactable at all times.” Later, after the call to Mazón, the third vice president of the Government continued “pending the evolution of DANA and in contact with the other ministries alerted to the situation”, she participated electronically in the crisis committee established on the same night of the 29th. and brought forward his return to Madrid on the first available flight on Wednesday the 30th.