They all stay. This is the title of this Friday’s appearance by the president of the Generalitat Valenciana during which evaded his political responsibilities of DANA management.
Thus, the main conclusion of Mazón’s speech is that the president will continue to lead the Generalitat with his team. In fact, during more than two and a half hours of speeches, he did not mention the Ministers of Justice and the Interior interviewed, Salome Pradasand Tourism and Industry, Nuria Montesand left unresolved the question of who will be in charge of the vice-presidency that will coordinate the restructuring.
And even if now he recovers a emergency servicehas also not assumed any responsibility for having systematically reduced the emergency management budget since his arrival in the Valencian government, eliminating (together with his partner Vox) the emergency unit created by Ximo Puig in 2023, considering it as “a beach bar”.
Added to the announcement of the new council are the increasingly recurring commissions of inquiry, the one that will promote the Valencian PP to the Corts and another that Mazón hopes to see appear in the Congress of Deputies. Mazón thus resolves the greatest tragedy of the Valencian Community.
“He will lead the recovery”
During his speech, Mazón tried to separate his political future from what he has done and, on the contrary, he tried to link it to what he can do now. The president aspires to eliminate from his record that He was missing during key DANA hoursand instead intends to place a blank sheet of paper on the table to be filled from now on.
The president assured that he would “lead the recovery” and if he is not able to do so, will not run for election. “I do not hide the errors of the Generalitat, I recognize them, I assume them and even I apologize and I am not going to evade the responsibilities that I must assume, I must be the first. Valencia, the affected area, has need this recovery and that we carry it out with all determination, and if I am not capable of it, I will assume the consequences by not running for the elections,” he declared in Les Corts.
But the essence of his intervention, Mazón blamed everyone but himselfwhich was not where it should have been. In fact, as the president indicated this Friday, the system has failed except him.
“It is legitimate to ask whether, in general, the system responded as we thought. I have the first answer, it is not the case,” he commented, before adding that “ too many things have failed, even the whole system has failed.” “
Mazón’s lies in his speech
The truth calls into question Mazón’s management within DANA which he left more than 200 dead in the Valencian Community. While Valencia was flooded, Mazón was as if nothing had happened. After noon, the Generalitat remained at the Palau. He seemed oblivious to everything, or at least that’s what his actions said, and he made no movement the entire time.
Additionally, at 3:00 p.m. he went to lunch with a journalistan act that goes beyond his official agenda. In other words, instead of monitoring these rescues and floods that were happening on his territory, Mazón chose a four-hour meal.
Furthermore, Mazón’s speech this Friday at the Corts was marked by his contradictions, inaccuracies, half-truths and lies and above all very little “self-criticism” of his management, even though he claims some himself.
Far from recognizing his mistakes, the president of the Generalitat pointed the finger at the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation (CHJ), AEMET and the Government Delegation. In his speech, Mazón assured that there was no need to inform him of his arrival two hours late to the CECOPI meeting. He also insisted there was an “information blackout”. These are just some of the lies Mazón told in his speech, even though he himself said he seemed to be “telling the truth without falsifying anything.”
Even Vox does not support Mazón
Despite everything that happened, all the lies and contradictions of his intervention and, above all, after not having assumed his responsibilities in the management of DANA, At the end of his speech, the only applause he received was from his own group.. With almost half a minute of applause from their benches, the deputies of the Valencian Popular Party showed their support for the still president of the Generalitat.
The opposition opposed Mazón’s interventions. They believe that their strategy is an insult to all Valencians and especially to the victims. Actually, Even Vox did not support Mazón and his spokesperson was particularly harsh towards his government.
