The government disconnects aid to Valencia from budgets and accuses the Popular Party of accusing it of blackmail. This was assured Maria Jesus MonteroMinister of Finance, in an interview with “The country”.
From Genoa, they accuse the government of blackmail for including aid to Valencia in the general state budget. What the first vice-president denied: “The president did not link the 10.6 billion to the budget. The budgets are not yet ready help will arrivethey represent an extraordinary expense and Brussels understands this. We need to stop playing politics. You need a budget and it seems inappropriate to call it blackmail. It is a time to demand responsibility and confront, but now we need the budget and It is unpresentable, unsympathetic and absolutely disoriented to talk about blackmail“.
While emphasizing that the decree-law has no relation to the Budgets, Montero adds that “no one would understand that the Generalitat has not oriented its public accounts towards reconstruction nor that the next State Budgets are not focused on resolving this issue as quickly as possible.” “A position adopted Diane Morantleader of the PSPV, who declared in Al Rojo Vivo that he would approve Mazón’s budgets regardless of the decision of the PP at the national level.
Montero defers the blame to Mazón
The figure of Carlos Mazon It is very controversial due to its ineffective management, which is also justified by lies. Despite all this, the minister assures that this is not the time to analyze decisions but to continue working on the ground: “We have focused on responding to people who are going through a difficult period, on safeguarding the fabric productive and on the deployment of aid to rebuild the devastated area: it will be time to see how the decisions were taken. Don’t expect any reproaches from me. I insist that there will be time for commissions of inquiry“.
Montero reiterated once again that the Government has been “from the first moment” attentive to the needs of the Valencian Community and that not having taken control of the situation has not been a political strategy: “We have been present in Valencia from the first minute, with all the deployment of forces and the Army, it would have made no sense to enter into a struggle of competition and continuous friction. Mazón was responsible for activating the highest alarm level if the situation overwhelmed him.. And he didn’t.”
On the other hand, he admitted to understanding the “indignation” of the people during the Paiporta altercation, but regrets that “ultras lit the fuse of violence”: “I understand the indignation of the people who lose their homes, their business, their car, to their loved ones. But despair is logical when help does not arrive immediately, and this frustration can turn into anger when there is emotion.
“I find it scandalous that the ultras infiltrated these demonstrations. Not only were they ultras, but there were ultras who lit the fuse of violence,” he concluded.
