It’s hard to believe that someone who disappeared during DANA’s most critical hours; that he repeatedly changed the version of his location; that he telephoned the mayor of Cullera “in a cheerful and frivolous tone”; who has been denied by AEMET, CHJ and UME and who has not yet asked for forgiveness, can look into the eyes of the Valencians. Don’t you find the pain, guilt or shame unbearable?
Nuria Montes (Minister of Industry) has fallen and Salomé Pradas (Minister of Justice and Interior and responsible for emergencies) will fall. The first despised/insulted the victims of DANA a few hours after the Valencia tragedy when, without any empathy, she asked them to stay at home and not to go to the pavilion set up by the Generalitat as a morgue to ask for information on their loved ones. . The second admitted in an interview with Á Punt, Valencian public television, that she was unaware that there was an instrument to send alerts to citizens’ cell phones and warn of the risk of flooding.
The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, who comforted neither locals nor foreigners during his appearance before the Cortes, as Feijóo had predicted, decided that others would take responsibility for the disaster because apparently he doesn’t feel responsible for anything.
It is hard to believe that someone who disappeared during the most critical two and a half hours of the afternoon of October 29; that he repeatedly changed his version of where he was; that he telephoned the mayor of Cullera “in a cheerful and frivolous tone”; who has been denied with data and official documents by AEMET, the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar and the UME and who has not yet been able to ask for forgiveness, can look into the eyes of the Valencians. Can we sleep without consciousness problems? Don’t you feel any anxiety? Don’t you find the pain, guilt or shame unbearable?
It is also difficult to believe that Feijóo will fold his arms in the face of such indignity and maintain equidistance in the distribution of blame. Beyond the fact that the Spanish government decided, as it defended, not to take command given the seriousness of the events for reasons of operationality and efficiency, no one having followed the chronology of events cannot be equidistant on this issue. Mazón had the powers and had the necessary instruments to prevent, not the material damage caused by the floods, but the number of deaths from exceeding 200.
And he still claims that he will assume “political responsibilities” if he is not able to lead the recovery of devastated areas. The debt that he owes to the Valencians and that is asked of him does not concern the destroyed houses, nor the destroyed roads, nor the crushed vehicles… What concerns him are the deaths that he could have avoided if he had been in his place and not in a restaurant booth, in his first version, isolated and in the penultimate version, “conscious of everything”. Both versions are unpresentable because it is so irresponsible not to have suspended the lunch in question, already knowing, thanks to the alarms communicated by the meteorological services and the media, the extent of the floods, as well as being informed of what was happening. passing by, not giving instructions to activate the alert and not appear until two and a half hours later.
Contrary to what they would like in rue Génova, even if they do not admit it, Mazón is determined to continue with reconstruction as an alibi. And Feijóo, to swallow. Or not. This will be seen. In the popular world, there is suspicion that the leader of the PP is not favorable to Mazón, hindering his electoral possibilities for the second time, as he already did with the government pact with Vox a month and a half before the last general elections. , and that he will not give up his efforts until the Valencian leaves. This Monday, before the National Board of Directors of the PP, he asked him for “humility” and urged him to continue “to recognize mistakes and assume responsibility” because “there is no longer any ‘errors’. This, the most popular warn, is the first warning among many others to come. In private and in public. Those who know the Galician know that if he has demonstrated anything in his political career, it is that he neither forgets nor forgives and that, although he also attacks the Sánchez government, he has drawn a cross on the head of Mazón, an unequivocal symbol that he has already condemned him to death (politically, we understand). The only question is when he will perform the adagio.
