The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, participated in the first Plenary session of the Madrid Assembly after the DANA tragedy in Valencia.
During the plenary session of this Thursday, November 7, the first after the cold fall which hit Valencia, killing 219 people, was held a minute of silence and an institutional statement was issued by those concerned. Remember that the drama took place on Tuesday October 29, but that no plenary session took place on Thursday the 31st.
Francisco Galeote, first secretary of the Assembly, was responsible for delivering the institutional declaration for the dead of DANA and their families. He expresses “his deep dismay and his regrets at the natural disaster which struck our country” and calls on all “Administrations come together in a coordinated effort and solidarity to make all its resources available to those affected and offer maximum support to the families of the victims.
Likewise, he thanked “the immense work of the rescue teams, firefighters and civil protection, the Armed Forces – in particular the UME -, the State Security Corps, the Police and the Civil Guard, forensic doctors, psychologists, professionals and machine and public operators”. public works, professionals from the electricity, telephone and water companies and all the anonymous heroes who, with courage and dedication, worked tirelessly to minimize the effects of this disaster.
In this institutional declaration, which came after a minute of silence, reference was also made to the “people of Madrid” for the solidarity they have shown towards those affected.
Isabel Diaz Ayuso
The president of the Community of Madrid was present in mourning, dressed in a suit and a black top. In one of his interventions, in response to Vox, he defended that “the state of autonomy has been disrupted” with what happened, sending professionals and equipment.
He did so in response to Vox spokesperson Isabel Pérez Moñino, who claimed that “the autonomous system failed” and “was not up to the task” of the disaster.
Moñino stressed that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is “the biggest culprit”, “an autocrat, the one who criminalized those who had spent four days removing mud and dead people from houses before arriving smiling at Paiporta. to see if anyone wanted to ask for help”, and that now “conditions of aid for the approval of general budgets”.
As for Madrid, after asking the president this week to allow accommodation places in Zendal and in retirement homes for those affected by DANA, they reiterated that they want the president to withdraw her budgets to allocate income additional benefits to those affected by DANA, as well as the reduction of public spending.
Ayuso qualified “events” his words. “He tells us first to invest in Valencia. Of course. Or do you think that everything we sent is not paid for by the people of Madrid with their taxes? They pay out of pocket, Your Honor,” he emphasized.
Regarding the accounts, the head of the Madrid Executive maintained that “two thirds of what the Madrid taxpayer receives thanks to his work goes directly to the State”. “That is to say that of the 50,000 that we collect, 31,000 go to a government which has 22 ministries and which has just placed 11 people at RTVE who will collect 100,000 euros,” he said. declared.
According to him, “tying community budgets to Valencia” does not make sense, just as it is not logical that at the national level the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, should support Sánchez’s accounts.
“Don’t you see that what you are proposing are ideas? Then he suggests another idea, proposing Zendal. This management has nothing to do with a hospital like Zendal. “This has nothing to do with what is currently happening in Valencia,” he said.
Regarding public spending, he defended that he had “only” new ministries and that he had reduced the vice-ministries and that they had the “most austere” government, still “at the top of the index of economic freedom in Spain” and lowering” taxes uninterruptedly for years.
