The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Nuñez Feijóokeep doing juggle in his speech to accuse Pedro Sánchez on the management of DANA and trying to exonerate the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazon. A juggling act in which he continues to distort the truth and give rise to some of the hoaxes that have spread since the disaster of October 29.
He did so this Tuesday in an interview with Espejo Público, in which he tried to support Mazón with the same arguments, although he ended up questioning him saying that he reportedly called for a national emergency if he had been president of the Generalitat.
In his desire to blame others, the PP leader stressed Pedro Sánchez, to Teresa Ribera, at AEMET and to the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar. And along the way, some truthful measurements were left.
1. “AEMET announces at noon that the rains should ease at six in the afternoon”
This is false. That’s what Mazón said at a press conference, but it’s not like that. AEMET, the State Meteorological Agency, has set the validity of its red alert until 6 p.m. – as it does regularly – but that does not mean that it has diminished from then on . In fact, at 6 p.m., the red alert was extended.
This is what AEMET usually does and this is how the The government delegate in Valencia, Pilar Bernabé, who already declared in the morning that the red alert could be extended. Bernabé is the same one who, according to her account, tried three times to contact the Minister of the Interior on October 29 to offer him the services of the UME.
2. “Mazón has been there from the beginning”
“President Mazón has had enough with the panorama that we experienced in Valencia. “He’s been there from the start, he showed his face from the first moment and he continues to do so.”
Feijóo once again misses the truth, unless the leader of the PP locates the “beginning” of the catastrophe which left more than 200 dead after the Carlos Mazón’s meal with the journalist Maribel Vilaplana, a meeting which kept him absent and incommunicado for three hours and which delayed decision making and sending of the alert to the population.
This is not the first time that the PP defends Mazón and claims that he has “dedicated himself” to post-tragedy tasks, but They continue to remain silent on the absence of the president at key times. Furthermore, privately, many “popular” people consulted by laSexta do not believe they can save Mazón. Moreover, in private they are talking about a resignation, even if it is not immediate.
3. The “if you need help, ask me” thing
“Human errors must be distinguished from errors due to a lack of humanity. (…) This phrase “if you need help, ask me” from the person who has the most power in Spain, all the resources you have, is a phrase that remains in the history of irresponsibility in disaster management.”
Once again, Feijóo manipulates a phrase from Sánchez that the PP has used these days and which it ended up becoming a hoax. Not only did Pedro Sánchez not exactly say “if you need help, ask me”, but he has been decontextualized completely to whom he addressed this expression.
The president’s full sentence was: “The central government is ready to help.” If they need more resources, ask for them.. It is not necessary to establish priorities between certain municipalities or others or to prioritize tasks; priority is given when there is a lack of resources, and this is not the case.” To begin with, the phrase referred to the Government of the Generalitat, of which he assured that the Government had already dedicated all the resources of the State at its disposal.
However, the PP accused Sánchez address citizens in this waya twisted phrase that circulated among citizens transformed into a hoax.
4. About declaring a national emergency
“I spoke on Wednesday in Letur in front of Page and on Thursday I went to CECOPI, I made a big deal and I spoke again; This is a classic national emergency.the president must declare the national emergency and take control of it. »
In this case, it is true that on Thursday, from Valencia, Feijóo declared that the situation was “national emergency”and even in the interview he emphasized that he had said it privately to Sánchez, but the truth is that did not publicly ask the Interior Ministry to take command, which has the power to declare a national emergency.
5. “Here, the only one who wishes to appear voluntarily is Mr. Mazón.”
Here, Feijóo ended up denying himself by trying to attack the vice-president and Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera. In the interview with Susana Griso, the leader of the PP continues: “Ms. Ribera does not want to appear, it seems that yesterday Ribera asked to appear.” Indeed, Teresa Ribera requested to appear before the plenary session of Congress to explain his management of DANA in his area of responsibility.
6. The German minister who resigned
“In Germany there was a dismissal due to flooding of the family delegate for his departure 10 days later. Sánchez says we need more ‘Riberas’; Ribera’s management is regrettable.”
Feijóo manipulates two situations that have nothing to do with each other, by mixing the resignation of a German minister in 2022who went on vacation a few days after the floods in her “country”, with the institutional trip in which Teresa Ribera was already on the Monday before the disaster.
7. Sánchez in India?
“When Mr. Sánchez was in IndiaI said it was a national emergency. “I told it to the President of the Government, who is the one who can decree it.”
Another lie – or significant tense confusion – from Núñez Feijóo in his 30-minute interview. Pedro Sánchez returned from his institutional trip to India while DANA besieged Valencia and Castile-La Mancha, but he was already in Spain on Wednesday 30 in the morning, when he proposed a institutional declaration of Moncloa at 11:30 a.m. which all the media have resumed. At that time, Feijóo and the PP had not yet publicly expressed anything about the national emergency.
