The Senate will create a commission of inquiry into the prevention, management and response to the DANA which devastated Valencia four weeks ago. This newspaper was able to confirm this with sources from the People’s Party, which has an absolute majority in the Upper House. The people will present the petition “in the coming days”according to these sources.
As this newspaper was able to confirm, the PP intends to monopolize Pedro Sanchez and to his government this Wednesday during the control session, as an aperitif for what promises to be a commission of inquiry full of controversies.
The corruption of Koldo affair and the confessions of Victor de Aldama; but also the judicial investigations for the alleged crime of revealing secrets by the Attorney General against the boyfriend of Isabel Diaz Ayuso and the new revelations according to which the leak could come from Moncloa will focus some of the PP’s questions. But “the management of DANA will be the protagonist, now that A month later, finally, the president deigns to come to Congress to report to the representatives of the Spanish people.
According to the sources consulted, in the signed resolution it will be confirmed that the commission will seek “the truth” about everything that happened. “And the responsibilities of all the administrations involved”, of the Generalitat Valenciana of Carlos Mazon to the Executive. Certainly, the PP admits that “the Senate is a national Chamber, whose task is to control the Government and, in this case, Minister DANA, on the run in Europe“.
As a PP spokesperson put it, “President Mazón has already recognized his mistakes, he promised not to run for office if he did not succeed in reconstruction and He himself announced that he would submit to a commission of inquiry” in the Valencian Cortes. So “the logic is that in the Spanish Parliament we are going to focus on the work of the Ministry, when it stopped the adaptation and drainage works of the ravine in 2021”.
It is also planned to investigate why Ribera refused to clean the canals, despite requests from the Generalitat and the region’s town halls. Why channel monitoring was privatized, banking on a low offer. And above all, what happened so that there were two and a half hours of “information blackout” in the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation (CHJ)just when the Poyo ravine multiplied its flow almost by 100 to the point of causing tragedy.
In addition to possible failures in the prevention and management of 29-O, the commission will also focus on finding areas for improvement in coordination in the face of emergencies. And “in the days following” the disaster. In other words, in the central government’s response, “refuse to declare a national emergencyor days of waiting to send emergency aid and troops” will also be subject to scrutiny.
“Minister of DANA”
This Friday marks a month since the tragic floods in the south of Valencia, which killed at least 221 people. This Monday, Sánchez officially announced the new third vice-president for ecological transition, Sarah Aagesen. Because this Wednesday, the European Parliament plans to confirm the new European Commission, in which Therese Ribera She will be first vice-president, even with the vote against the Spanish PP.
Those of Alberto Nuñez Feijóo they will come out of voting discipline of the European PP. They will do this, among other things, because they hold Ribera responsible for “hiding” from DANA, “a dogmatic policy” which made prevention impossible of the overflow of the Poyo ravine, and a “negligent action” of the CHJ, which depends on the Ministry he is leaving today.
The “Great European Pact” was on the verge of collapse when the former Spanish vice-president failed to approve it during the European Parliament hearing on November 12.
Popular Europeans demanded that Ribera give “satisfactory explanations” in the Spanish Cortesbefore considering its evaluation. Ultimately, although he did not answer key questions, Sánchez negotiated with Giorgia Meloni And Viktor Orban accept a pact with the Italian and Hungarian “far-right governments” to support their commissioners.
The Spanish PP will therefore find itself alone in its now symbolic rejection of Ribera. But not completely. Manfred Weberpresident of the European PP imposed on the Spaniards agrees to resign if indicted in Spain by a judge investigating his actions as minister.
“It’s essential,” explains a PP source in Brussels, “because it’s not just about DANA; Aldama’s statement implicating it in meetings with Begoña Gómez and a company Globalia which sponsored it also pose a threat to the European Commission.
