After a long intervention by Carlos Mazón to get rid of his responsibilities in the management of DANA, it is the turn of the rest of the Corts Valencianes parties to react. The PSOE and Compromís called for Mazón’s resignation: “We will not rest until he answers for his incompetence and his lies,” said Joan Baldoví, spokesperson for Compromís.
Baldoví thanked everyone who helped save and clean up València because they “certainly rose to the occasion.” And he addressed Mazón: “Can you sleep at night? Can you look in the mirror? Could you look at the face of someone who has lost a family member? To me, you are no longer our president. “A president who abandons his people does not deserve to be president.”
The deputy requested Mazón’s departure because “he has already resigned from his responsibilities several times.” “Where was the president of Valencia when we needed him most?” “How could I eat in peace while Utiel and Requena were flooding? How could it have disappeared while we, the Valencians, were facing the worst catastrophe?
“We will be able to recover from the material destruction, what we will not be able to recover are the lives of the 216 people that your government had the obligation to protect,” insisted Baldoví, who also recalled during his speech that Mazón had criticized the University of Valencia for believing that it was exaggerated that classes were suspended because of DANA. “His incompetence does not stop on the 29th, unfortunately he did not ask for help from the state from the first moment and delayed help from elsewhere,” he said.
The PSOE proposes an interim president
José Muñoz, spokesperson for the PSPV-PSOE, in turn proposed to the PP that, given the “inaction” of the Consell, Mazón be removed from office and a “transitional” technical president be appointed. “They will have the votes of the PSOE, without compensation,” he declared, but on three conditions: that they appoint an interim and technical president, that they make the resumption a process open to all groups except Vox , and then elections take place. called.
Muñoz criticized Mazón for giving “a lot of information” to misinform during the two and a half hours his explanations lasted. “You tried to save yourself politically, but you did not explain to the Valencians why you did absolutely nothing in response to the alerts,” he said.
“Not everything has failed. You have failed, Mr. Mazón. The first thing a protocol tells us is that people with the capacity to decide must be in their place. And you were out of place,” Muñoz criticized the Valencian president, who spent three hours eating with a journalist and arrived late at Cecopi, the key meeting to manage DANA. “You were subjected during the greatest tragedy of the Valencian Community.” Like Baldoví, Muñoz told him that he “de facto resigned.”
Vox accuses the Consell of “negligence”
The first to intervene after Mazón was the parliamentary group Vox. Its spokesperson, José María Llanos, accused the Consell of “negligence” and lack of organization. “You set an example in management. Where is the management? » asked Llanos, who asked about the regional secretary of Security and Emergencies, Emilio Argüeso, who, according to him, “disappeared” during the emergency.
The Vox spokesperson equated the “negligence” of the regional government with the “criminal negligence” of the central government. Llanos accused the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, of “baseness and evil” and accused various ministers like Grande-Marlaska, Robles or Ribera of the responsibility that, according to him, they had in responding to the emergency.
