While deputies, senators and ministers exchanged reproaches this Wednesday for the management of DANA, the mayor of Paterna and senator for the PSOE, Juan Antonio Sagredo, moved the Upper House by calling for unity with a broken voice and a flag. Valencian woman stained with Paiporta mud on her hands.
“I hope they join Valencia’s cry and give them what they ask of us, something as simple as changing confrontation for unity. Ladies and gentlemen, whatever you do, what I do know is that I am returning to Valencia again to rebuild ‘the greatest land of the world’”, stated the socialist senator in a brief speech from the speakers’ gallery.
His party colleagues stood up to applaud him and from the ranks of the PP, Gerardo Camps, who had to go up to the platform to start the reply, approached his seat to hug him.
However, this has been a flash of unity in a parliamentary day marked by criticism and mutual recriminations between parliamentary groups, engaged in the search for political culprits after the tragedy.
Sagredo has taken the floor to respond to Camps, who has defended in plenary a motion to demand that the Government review the emergency protocols, approve a “Valencia Plan” for reconstruction and that all of them be allocated to the affected areas. the necessary resources, without linking the aid to the approval of the State budget for 2025. Doing so would be “extortion” of the parliamentary groups using the Valencians as a shield, has warned the PP senator, who, in a speech without great reproaches, has considered that the measures announced so far by the Government are “adequate”, although “insufficient”.
“To the ‘poble valencia’, to Spain, only unity is worth it”
Sagredo went up to the podium with the Valencian flag stained by mud and could not prevent his voice from breaking on several occasions during his speech, loaded with the “tears and grief of those who have lost everything” and full of the rage “of those who do not understand why things do not work.” “I speak to you with my heart in my hand, and also scratched, muddy and shrunken from seeing, smelling and feeling so much tragedy,” said the senator, whose gesture has garnered widespread support from the chamber.
To reverse the “dystopian” landscape that DANA has left, to restore dignity to the political class and regain the trust of society, the mayor of Paterna has called for unity.
“Right now, the ‘poble valencia’, Spain, only needs unity. Promises and good intentions are not worth it; They no longer serve them. They are tired of reproaches; They don’t want them. They only need facts and solutions. We are the constitutional body that represents the Spanish people, please, let us never forget that,” he asked all the senators.
The mayor was moved when he remembered how a woman, Amparo, offered him her house when they were helping to remove mud in Aldaia: “We have to give those who have lost everything (…) a lesson in unity, in common sense.” Unity that, he continued, the Valencian socialists have shown by supporting the budgets of the Generalitat and the Valencian Provincial Council “without reproach.”
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