Vicente Vallés is clear about who is responsible for the tragedy in Valencia caused by DANA: “It corresponds to…”

The journalist traveled to the Valencian Community to cover firsthand the crisis caused by the strong rain storm two weeks ago. Precisely, Pablo Motos asked him how he experienced it. «All your colleagues tell you that. It’s stepping in the mud, looking around you and seeing the people who are suffering the consequences of this… It’s a terrible thing», he pointed out.

Vallés made it clear that the most important thing is human lives and that those affected recover from the tragedy, but then we must “draw conclusions so that, When this happens again, let’s be better prepared».

Vicente Vallés’ opinion on DANA

During the interview, Motos pointed out that “we should not lose focus and see where the mistakes have been” on the part of the political class. In this sense, Vallés shared a reflection that he learned from a former teacher: «When there are several people involved in an action and it goes wrong, normally there is someone who has the first responsibility, but there are almost always other responsibilities».

According to the journalist, “everyone has to assume 100% of their own responsibility.” «There are things that were not done well at the beginning, when The Valencian Community should have taken some quick measures, for example, alerting people before the worst happened,” argued the presenter.

However, Vallés pointed out that the responsibility was not only the regional government. «Then it has also been known that They were all more aware of the Forata dam than of the Poyo ravine when the tragedy came from there and that corresponds to the national administration through the hydrographic basins,” he continued.

For the Antena 3 News presenter, the crisis caused by DANA opens an important debate. «Perhaps, at the end of the day, we have to open a process of reflection on certain types of functioning of the autonomous state because it seems that whenever something happens there is a discussion about who should do this or that and it would be useful for that to be clarified.

Motos wanted to know if there are too many protocols when it comes to acting in situations like DANA. «Protocols are not useful in 100% of cases“There are circumstances in which you have to skip them,” said Valles, who gave a clear example: “If you have to send the Army without waiting for them to ask you, you send it. If they don’t ask you, the one who is making a mistake is the one who doesn’t ask you, but if you don’t send it, you are making a mistake too.

“Maybe action should have been taken sooner. The President said that there was institutional respect… It is not debatable not to apply the protocol, but perhaps it is that, from time to time, it should not be applied or not so strictly. “You have to have a certain waist,” he insisted.

For Motos, the DANA management has not divided the Spanish population into sides, as there are two political parties that have not known how to act: “There should be resignations,” said the presenter. In this sense, Vallés made a prediction: «hopen resignations or dismissals. Here we must establish 100% responsibility that corresponds to each person, and each person will have to assume their own responsibility.”

Furthermore, the journalist opined that, if there have been no dismissals so far, it is because “if we behead those who have to make the decisions, we will be in a beheaded project until we put someone else in and understand how this is going. Forks a valid criterion».