BarcelonaWhile the cleaning brigades strive to remove the trail of mud thrown during the historic demonstration to demand the resignation of President Carlos Mazón, the Generalitat Valenciana rules out taking the gauntlet of the demonstrators. “At the moment” there will be no resignation, explained the vice-president of the government. “We cannot abandon the victims”, Susana Camarero expressed in a press conference. “It’s not an option at the moment, we can’t think of anything other than recovery or anything other than helping people and for health centers and schools to open,” he said.
More than 130,000 people, according to the delegation of the Spanish government, mobilized this Saturday in the Valencian Country with Mazón and his executive in the target. The president and several of his advisers have been false after the chronology of their management has been known and the multiple versions that have been given these days. Even the state leadership of the PP had preferred not to get involved in the defense of its Valencian co-religionists. After the demonstration, however, ranks have been closed with Mazón, who “has been showing his face at all times”, indicated the party’s Deputy Secretary of Economy, Juan Bravo.
The aim of the populists continues to be to criticize the role of the Spanish government in the whole crisis, remembering that “it gave up being in charge of the biggest emergency produced in Spain”. So far, DANA has caused 223 deaths – 215 in the Valencian Country – and 78 missing. From Valencia, Camarero has once again pointed towards the Minister of the Environment, Teresa Ribera, about whom the Valencian government is questioning the commitment in the management of the crisis.
The Valencian vice president has reiterated that Ribera did not contact President Mazón until after 8:17 p.m., minutes after the alert was sent to citizens’ mobile phones and when everything was already out of control. The call was not answered by Mazón because, as Camarero explained, the Valencian president did not have the phone number of the minister saved in his diary, who ended up sending him an SMS showing his concern for what was happening in the country Valencian Mazón justified on Saturday that he had not seen the minister’s missed calls because there was no coverage at the Generalitat’s emergency center. “[La ministra] he was in Brussels doing corridors [per ser nova vicepresidenta de la Comissió Europea] instead of worrying about what was happening in Valencia”, denounced the Valencian vice-president.
The PSOE has been targeting Mazón for days, although the socialists avoid demanding his resignation. In fact, formally they were not one of the parties that called the public to the demonstration against the president of the Generalitat. The other partner of the Spanish government, Sumar, has, on the other hand, no problem demanding that Mazón fold. “Instead of criticizing the government of Spain, which is overturned in reconstruction, Mr. Feijóo must demand that Mazón take a step back,” asked the Minister of Culture and spokesman for Sumar, Ernest this Sunday Urtasun.
“Understanding Pain”
The vice-president has shielded herself in the “understanding of pain, impotence and frustration” to avoid explaining whether her government has made self-criticism of the management both before and after the passage of the cold drop. At this point, Camarero referred to the appearance that Mazón will make in the Valencian Courts next Thursday, where he said that the president “will convey to the deputies, the press and the whole society what happened”, but also what was his reaction One of the most controversial points on Tuesday, October 29, was that Mazón did not cancel his schedule despite the worrying weather forecasts and even had lunch for more than three hours with a journalist to offer her the direction of À Point – a lunch that took more than a week to justify among speculations of all kinds.
Almost at the same time that Camarero appeared at the Palau de la Generalitat Valenciana, Mazón made statements at the entrance to the daily meeting of Cecopi (the DANA management center) installed in Elia and indicated that on Thursday he would clarify “lies and falsehoods” that have circulated these days. Mazón has assured that it will be an appearance “with all the luxury of details because there has been a lot of falsehood, and focused on planning the future and reconstruction”.
Touched politically by the contradictory versions he has given about where and what he was doing on DANA day, the president of the Generalitat has taken issue with the fact that the appearance in the Courts is on his own initiative: “I was the only one who requested an appearance and we will continue to show our face”, he emphasized, although he refused to make an assessment of the massive demonstration yesterday in Valencia, which brought together more than 130,000 people asking for his resignation.
In fact, both Camarero and Mazón have agreed to tiptoe over the large mobilization and have ignored the message sent by the PP, criticizing that it was “Catalanist groups” who had gone all the way to Valencia “to wrap the exchange”. The president has insisted that his government is now dedicated to “day to day”, while the vice president has limited himself to repeating that he understands the state of mind of the citizens, but has condemned those who “have politically used” the mobilization He also wanted to differentiate between those who came peacefully and those who led the riots in front of the facade of Valencia City Council and the Palace of the Generalitat.
Second State aid package
After this week the Spanish President, Pedro Sánchez, announced a first aid package worth 10.6 billion euros intended for the reconstruction of the area affected by the DANA, the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, announced this Sunday to the parliamentary groups that tomorrow the Council of Ministers will approve a second decree-law with only immediate response measures for those affected, as reported by the EFE Agency citing ministry sources.
