The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities and general secretary of the PSPV-PSOE, Diana Morant, pointed out this Friday that there are those who did not take seriously the warning notices issued by the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) regarding DANA, remembering that in some municipalities and cities universities and colleges were closed.
Asked in an interview on RNE, if she believes that the weather forecasts of October 29 were interpreted correctly, the minister assured that it is an issue that “must be reviewed” although «there have been people who have taken the alerts seriously and people who have not«.
Morant has detailed that there are scientific mechanisms and tools that allow us to be prepared for meteorological alerts, but that “there is a framework that responds to the reaction to these instruments” and that is where “there are those who have not taken the emissions seriously.” alert from scientific servers.
As an example, he explained that, in response to the Aemet predictions not only on the day of the floods, but even a few days before, the universities closed and several mayors decided not to open schools. Along the way, he stressed that in some cities where these measures were taken in the end “it did not rain even a drop”, such as in the town of Gandía.
«What I want to say is that, before the alerts, then there are also the decisions and how one makes them. Therefore, I believe that you really have to learn, you always have to learn. We learned from the pandemic. We also have to learn from this, but there is also how each person pays attention or not to the alerts,” Morant stated.
She continued in her explanation, ensuring that the alerts come from science and that she does not understand those who attack her today. “That precisely the public servants who have offered us these alerts are attacked, that seems totally out of place to me,” he lamented.
Questioned about the two-hour absence of the ‘president’ of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, at the CECOPI meeting on October 29, presumably for a working lunch, the minister maintained that “here everyone makes their decisions” and that She knows what she would do in a circumstance like that. “I made certain decisions or non-decisions that some have not made, because I surely would not have been able to get up from the ground,” he argued.
In turn, with respect to communications between the different Valencian administrations during the day of the floods, Morant has stated that both she and “everyone” knew where the Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, was, since there is ” evidence” that he was “from early in the morning paying attention to the alerts and meeting the mayors”, even if it was not “his competence”, and offering resources to the Generalitat.
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