The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, did not want to comment this Tuesday on the management of DANA in Valencia and its political responsibilities and stressed that she was focused on “aid”. “We are living in a dramatic moment. We are suffering a lot with the Valencians. Every day, Madrilenians tell us in the street what they feel and the helplessness generated by the fact that everyone wants to collaborate and often does not know how,” said the regional leader during a visit to Hayedo de Montejo.
Ayuso, who was directly asked how she evaluates the management of the President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, and whether or not she would be in favor of declaring a state of national emergency, indicated that “the wrong body” whose they have is unimaginable and “it is “difficult” for them to “maintain the institutional agenda”, a “certain normality” and “a certain smile in front of the cameras” when inside they are “destroyed”.
“I can’t tell you more, we will be here to help you. I still feel like I need to support Valencia more. I’m not going to make any statements. Can’t. I’m sorry. I only want the best for the Valencians, to know that we are going to reach all the municipalities, that we are not going to leave a house behind and I can’t. It’s very difficult for me to get involved in anything other than what I have to do from Madrid (…) I’m lying to you if I give you an answer,” he replied.
After these words, he insisted that they think “of nothing else” than how to help, because it is “frustrating to see every morning and every evening the testimonies of good people who suffer and know that ‘They lost everything.’
Asked when Madrid activated the alert that reached cell phones a little over a year ago to prevent DANA that was affecting municipalities in the southeast of the region, she said she did not know not how many lives could have been saved but that there may have been “many.” since “thanks to the fact that the emergency services were activated in time”, which were not deployed for example in the Metropolitan stadium where it had started, “they could all be one hundred percent intended for the area de l’Alberche”.
“Thanks to this alert, probably many tourists, especially foreigners, who were with their families, were able to move away from the banks of the rivers. Thanks to this, all roads, some of which were flooded and bridges collapsed, were now clear. So we are happy that the alert has been activated,” he said, although he admitted that at first it had been “a bit of a joke”, because in the center of the city it It is not usual for “these natural disasters to occur”.
