The first government control session in the Senate after the Dana tragedy ended this Tuesday without any news and with the clear intention of the Executive not to engage in excessive debates with the opposition. With a few exceptions, such as when the Minister of the Presidency and Justice, Felix Bolanosclashed with the senator of Vox, Ángel Gordillo, whom he accused of having done nothing in the face of the disaster that cost the lives of more than two hundred people and which affected several municipalities in the province of Valencia .
Bolaños let slip to parliamentarian Santiago Abascal that “you continued to engage in the denialist discourse of climate change, you dedicated yourself to encouraging and supporting those who tried to attack the President of the Government”, in reference to the incidents . from two weeks ago to Paiportawhere the kings endured complaints and even mud-throwing from those who were at that time in the streets of the city most affected by Dana. In his response, Gordillo accused the minister of “hiding behind the victims of this tragedy” and criticized him for “not having mobilized the army from day one.”
For the rest, Bolaños and the rest of his Cabinet colleagues who appeared at the plenary session of the Upper House, such as the spokesperson Pilar Alegría or the heads of the Transport and Interior portfolios, Óscar Puente and Fernando Grande-Marlaska, declared did so with a deliberately sober tone, in response to questions from the People’s Party (PP) on the management of the drama. Neither Pedro Sanchezwhich is participating in the COP-24 climate summit in Baku (Aberbaijan), and its three vice-presidents also did not participate in the session, as was previously known. The plenary session began at the beginning of the afternoon with a minute of silence in memory of the deceased, after being indicated by the President of the Upper House, Pedro Rollán.
The spokesperson for the PP, Alicia Garciawho, like all the speakers, had words of remembrance for the victims, began by addressing Bolaños as follows: “Mr. Minister, is Mr. Sánchez well? We know that the only thing that matters to you is exonerating Sánchez from his negligence of his responsibilities. You continue to build a story that hurts and we will continue to rebuild what has been damaged. This is why we requested from day one the declaration of a national emergency, so that all state resources could be made available urgently. ” García, moreover, assured that for the Executive “its urgency and its urgency were left to the assault on the Spanish Radio Television, to the paid smear campaigns, to the arrest of the neighbors for a broom with a Sánchez in flight and blackmail of Budgets”.
“I’m sorry for your tone.”
Visibly angry, Bolaños responded, after also showing his solidarity with the victims, that “Ms. García, I regret your tone and I regret your question”, to which he added that “you will not find in me someone one that will confront you, with the Popular Party The head of Justice and the Presidency indicated that “we work in collaboration with the Valencian Community, also with the Provincial Delegation of Valencia, as well as with the town halls, with the mayors. concerned”.
The popular García, in her second round, accused Therese Ribera of having been hidden for “fifteen days” and announced that “now she will have to come out of her hiding place, forced, to explain to Parliament why they only warned of the flooding of the Magro River, why no one looked right away”. up to him, at the Poyo ravine.”, which overflowed, taking away, without anyone noticing, lives, houses, cars, businesses… and numerous infrastructures. Bolaños, in his last round, hoped that “I hope that for you, and for others, we will forget as soon as possible the intervention you had today in this chamber, in the Senate”.
On Wednesday the control session at the Congress of Deputies will take place, after the plenary session of October 30, during the first twenty-four hours of the drama, which was only partially suspended, the vote for the new councilors also being maintained. from RTVE.
