The Government considers that this is a “inconsistency“that the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, asks for the state of national emergency which would lead Sánchez’s Executive to take command, if the President of the Generalitat himself rejected it.
Last Monday, Feijóo called on the government to declare a state of “national emergency” over the DANA tragedy. “We continue to request, as we did on the first day, the declaration of a national emergency. If it is decided, it has our support,” he said in an institutional statement in the morning.
But a few hours later, during an institutional appearance without questions and with cries of “Mazón, resignation” in the background, The president of the Generalitat Valenciana avoided talking about his leader’s proposal.
Sources close to Sexta indicate that the government has the impression that what Feijóo is seeking with this request is to dismiss Mazón so that the central government can take charge of this disaster and thus “There are reasons to confront the government.”
For his part, the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, assured that it was not consistent for the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to demand that the government assume the command of managing the effects of DANA in Valencia. , if the president of the Generalitat, the “popular” Carlos Mazón, does not also ask for it.
Torres defended that the Valencian Community continues to lead the management of the storm because it is “who knows the terrain best”while emphasizing the importance of the Generalitat being the one which, if it finds itself unable to resolve the situation with its powers, asks the Spanish government to take control of the crisis.
“What is not consistent is that Mr. Feijóo, who is the leader of the PP, asks for it, and the president of the Valencian Community, who is from the Popular Party, does not do it. There is no consistency there“, said the minister in an interview with TVE, after being asked about the insistence of the “popular” leader on the declaration of a state of national emergency, which would remove Mazón from command of the crisis.
Despite this, the Sánchez Executive wants to be faithful in public to this maxim that it has maintained for several days of not entering into confrontation with the Generalitat.
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