Did Mazón insist on not raising the level of the disaster to retain command? Did you do it thinking about the political meaning that it would have for the PP if they had to ask for soups from the “Sanchista” government? Was that what led Feijóo to perform that first out-of-tune aria that time has left out of reality?
The catastrophe in the parking lot of a shopping center in Aldaia: “You don’t know how many people there may be inside”
"In politics it happens like in mathematics: everything that is not completely correct is wrong."
I’m going to talk about politics. It is compatible with the commiseration that overwhelms me. I want to tell the so-called politicians that if, as the people have perceived, they have indulged in a tactical calculation of their position before devoting themselves to helping the victims, they are screwed. The one and the other. No one who has made a calculation about the political consequences of acting one way or another will be safe. All those who have calculated whether it was beneficial or harmful for them to warn earlier or later, ask for help earlier or later, send help earlier or later, all of them without remission carry human lives on their backs. I don’t need to tell you, the Valencians, the Spaniards know it, we know it.
I’m going to talk about politics because we are not going to leave space to packs. No, neither are the people the only ones who save the people nor do we live in a failed State. Those who are using this horrible misfortune for their nefarious cultural battle will not emerge unscathed either. Those who seek absurd arguments, those who defend their own people tooth and nail, those who accuse their opponents with blood and fire, those who see everything in the wrong, those who excuse everything, none will emerge unscathed.
There are not two shores or two Spains or two black and white realities in this pain. The dead, the survivors, the ruined are not on one side or the other. Nobody has asked the thousands of people who gather to help if they are of one color or another or who they vote for. There is no time. The important thing is to help and rescue and help. This has been felt by the entire population. The mud of the networks, as dense as that which plagues Valencia, does not cover the common sense of a people who are terrified, who trusted that our first world resources would be efficient in the face of any catastrophe and who have seen, stunned, how the calculation demolished all your confidence. Because there has been calculation and no one lets me down on that.
Mazón, the Valencian president, is a political corpse, but he will not be the only one. An independent committee will have to analyze, when everything happens, what went wrong, where and how to do it better. Before reaching that step, we all know that the president of the Valencian Community acted late and that while a part of the population – those who worked, for example, in the Provincial Council or at the University of Valencia – were sent home, the Most of them did not receive the warning or instructions to take shelter at altitude in time. There’s no way around it, that’s how it happened. It also happened that the magnitude of the disaster surpassed the Valencian institutions. It wasn’t strange. This is the biggest natural disaster in Spain, at least since I can remember, because there were others, but the number of victims of this one will dwarf them. Did Mazón insist on not raising the level of the disaster to retain command? Did you do it thinking about the political meaning that it would have for the PP if they had to ask the “Sanchista” government for soups? Was that what led Feijóo to perform that first out-of-tune aria that time has left out of reality?
Sánchez can’t get his chest out either. From Tuesday afternoon to Saturday morning not only has it rained a lot, but it has died too much. The president uttered a devastating phrase: “If they need more resources, let them ask for them.” Only a believer can applaud that expression that contains within itself all the shame of days gone by. Have you calculated that it was politically interesting for the PP leaders to stew in their own ineptitude before coming out not to help them but to help the citizens? It sounds horrible, but it is a question that must be asked and that deep down lies behind the allusions of many Spaniards to the need for the government to have taken the reins of such a disaster much earlier. Valencia is a small territory, like most, while everyone’s strength comes from the integrity of the nation. Isn’t that basically what independentists are told over and over again, that theirs is a dream because they couldn’t do it alone?
I am not going to pontificate here about whether Mazón was the one who had to decree Emergency Level 3 or if the Government could proclaim Emergency 3 on its own, as it affected several communities, or if the solution was a state of alarm. That’s pointing the finger. What we all know is that if this is not a maximum level of emergency, may God have us confessed for when the authorities consider they should proclaim it. Until Thursday afternoon, when at 5:27 PM Mazón finally admitted that he needed the Army, which was effectively alerted and prepared for its deployment, in fact, longing for its deployment, what are we to think was going through the minds of some and from others? What did Mazón think to take two days to make the request? What were the central government and its ministers doing holding on, watching the hours and the corpses go by, waiting for him to get off the donkey? It is very difficult to escape unscathed from so much villainy.
They were decisive hours and hours of infamy. Abroad they must have thought that we could not react, so they offered firefighters and means, and not that being able and having the means we had held them back waiting for a take away those powers from there. We will never be able to know how many people who were holding on to a breath of life, locked in cars or premises or crushed by a landslide, could have survived if they had been rescued in a massive, immediate, explosive way, with all the power of the Spanish state, one of the powerful economies of the West. There each one with his conscience if he has one.
The president’s appearance on Saturday was late. Minister Torres’ explanations about the crisis cabinet were scarce, uncommunicative and unsatisfactory. The failure to immediately meet the Council of Ministers to declare the area catastrophic, a political error. We all know that this declaration serves to convey aid and that these are not going to be given before Tuesday, but we do see how this could be delayed until next Tuesday while the decree of the RTVE councilors was published urgently on Saturday in the BOE, we will understand the lack of timeliness of the decision.
You can say everything or nothing about the Valencian authorities. His performance was a great void. It is proof that in weak times the affectionate, the coreligionists, the least protesting end up being chosen for responsibilities, but that these do not have to be the most suitable to manage people’s lives and much less to respond to challenges of this kind. magnitude. Feijóo, in his haste, made the calculations wrong and thought it was a good idea to go and support him by challenging the scientists’ predictions. Nor will this terrible idea come for free, which, like others, also responds to the political calculation of not giving even a bubble of oxygen to the Sánchez government so as not to alleviate its weakness.
A special reference to all those who have nothing to calculate: the members of the army and the police, the citizen volunteers, the donors, those affected full of courage and solidarity with their co-suffering neighbors. Nobody calculated anything other than the immense flow of solidarity and humanity that unites us in misfortune and that should also be able to unite us in hope.
The political calculations, if there were any, will not be well done. There is no possible story in the face of the force of nature, the smallness of humans and the enormous suffering of our compatriots. It does not rent nor will it rent. They will see it. Reality has overwhelmed them.
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