“The Emergency protocols in the Valencian Community are crystal clear.” This is how forcefully Carlos Mazón expressed himself in 2022, when he led the opposition to the then regional president, the socialist Ximo Puig. Despite the fact that, after the catastrophic DANA on October 29, the Valencian PP has flatly questioned the Emergency protocols due to the late sending of the massive alert to mobile phones in the affected areas, Mazón said just two years ago exactly opposite. The general secretary of the Valencian PP and spokesperson for the popular parties in the regional Parliament, Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca, questioned in À Punt this tuesday “alert protocols” and said that “perhaps they are not enough to prevent” a phenomenon of the magnitude of the DANA on October 29.
On August 16, 2022, a medium-distance Renfe train that covered the route between València and Zaragoza was trapped near Bejís, a municipality in the Alto Palancia region of Castellón, in the midst of a fire. Despite the fire, the departure of the train from the Estació del Nord in Valencia at 4:23 p.m. to Zaragoza was not prevented. The convoy was trapped in the flames at 5:54 p.m. shortly after Caudiel, creating a tense situation that ended with more than a dozen people injured (three of them seriously), and that could have ended in tragedy if it had not been for the action. of the engineer, who managed to reverse the convoy’s progress and get it out of the fire.
Mazón, in a press appearance 17 days after the events, was very clear that the competence of the Emergencies is autonomous. The then leader of the opposition attacked Ximo Puig: “We are very disappointed with the lack of responsibility, decorum, and execution of the powers that he does have. [el president de la Generalitat]”, he stated.
He also said that “the fire protocols [y] The Emergency protocols in the Valencian Community are crystal clear and that the responsibility for having prevented that train from leaving and for having warned (…) lies with the Generalitat Valenciana, whose highest person in charge is keeping quiet in response.”
Carlos Mazón appeared on September 1, 2022, supported by the then PP spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, to assess the Bejís fire. The then leader of the opposition assured, according to the Efe agency and Cadena Serwhich did not rule out requesting a transcript of the conversation with the command post and demanding that jurists and administrators confirm that “the maximum responsibility” for the emergency plan in the Valencian Community lies with the Generalitat, which should have given notice so that that train did not leave Valencia.
“What doesn’t fit in our heads, and it certainly doesn’t fit in our minds, is that in a matter of this seriousness, the president of the Generalitat is silent. The first responsibility is what the president of the Generalitat thinks, to know if he is going to apologize or not, to know if he is going to ratify us or not that the maximum responsibility to notify is on the part of the Generalitat Valenciana,” Mazón added in an appearance. collected by the Europa Press agency.
In that appearance, Mazón did not rule out going to court until he knew “the truth” about the Bejís fire and that “political responsibilities” were assumed. And he ended by asking himself in reference to Puig: “What is the reason why we cannot know what he thinks, the competence he has, the responsibility he has and if the president of the Generalitat has any type of political responsibility?”
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