The worst cold spell of the century and one of the most serious disasters in our country left more than 220 dead in the Valencian Community alone, the most affected, and a devastating landscape. Some consequences in which politics, in particular the Administration responsible for this emergency, has a lot to do with: the Valencian Generalitat led by Carlos Mazón. His management was terrible, we could summarize it in absence, confusion and lies, but a month later, The “popular” does not resign, even if he is already vilified within his own party.
Thousands of Valencians have already taken to the streets to demand his resignation, as well as all the parties that make up Les Corts Valencianes. Yet he retains power without ceding explanations or admit all their mistakes – place the blame on the agencies dependent on the central government and the executive itself, even launching hoaxes against them– and puts everything on reconstruction, for which the Government has remodeled. A renovation that got off to a bad start from the start: a trickle of soldiers without experience in regional administration, for whom the salary cap has been removed so that they can earn up to 92,0000 euros.
Meanwhile, today we do not know why that fateful day of October 29 failed and where the main person responsible for the Valencian Community was. And from the first day of DANA, the different Administrations proposed a contrasting story about the hours before the storm with the focus on alertsthe control of the river bed, calls from the government or the absence for hours of regional president Carlos Mazón at the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (CECOPI).
Since this Tuesday, the Valencian president continues to give different versions, contradicting himself and omitting information, he has even gone weeks without giving a press conference with questions. To this day we do not know for sure why the President of the Generalitat was absent for a few key hours when there were already villages completely flooded by DANA. Actually, The meeting has already started late, around 5:00 p.m., while the alert was in place in the morning with a town like Utiel already flooded. Later, this He learned that he had gone to the El Ventorro restaurant to eat with the journalist Maribel Vilaplana to offer you the address of the regional channel In Punt.
But until reaching this explanation, he gave several versions: yes, a working lunch, a meeting with businessmen, a private lunch. The food and the late arrival of alerts on the population’s cell phones, beyond 8 p.m., became the main points of criticism against Mazón. The question of why the alert on the cell phones of the citizens of Valencia reached the 20.12 hours of Tuesday, October 29, when there were already villages razed, while other institutions and municipalities were taking preventive measures based on the same information.
