Carlos Mazón’s appearance before the Valencian Courts met the expectations that the Popular Party apparatus had put on the table in the previous days. There was self-criticism, detailed explanations and a great desire to focus on the future. Three plots that the President of the Generalitat has filled with his words and which serve the PP to throw the ball to the other side of the political field: “For the moment, Mazón is the only one who has explained himself. Now it’s their turn. It’s Sánchez’s turn.” In recent days, when Mazón had already announced that he was going to appear before the Valencian parliament to give his version of what happened during the DANA tragedy, there was a certain expectation within the Popular Party as to what this could happen . “He has a good opportunity to explain himself”, recognized last Wednesday a senior deputy of the party in the halls of Congress Alberto Núñez Feijóo himself was convinced. that same day – which in principle should have been the day before the intervention in the Cortes, which was later moved to Friday due to the impact of a second storm in the province of Valencia and Málaga – that Mazón was going “to look good”. An omen that accompanied the marked cards, since part of the message expressed by the president of the Generalitat this Friday was agreed with the leader of the party “Feijóo already knew the approach that Mazón planned to give. at his intervention and he accepted. “I believed that it was an appropriate speech, that it had been agreed between the two,” explains to ABC Related News Standard No Mazón rejects the responsibility of DANA in the “information blackout” of the Júcar. Hydrographic Confederation Toni Jiménez The president of the Generalitat recognizes his own “errors” in the management of the flood in front of the Valencian Cortes, but maintains that the communications from the state body arrived without margin to respond to the disaster. satisfaction in Genoa. The scenario came true and a direct message was sent to the government. “Mazón raised the bar with his words. He raised it for himself [al dejar en el aire su continuidad si no está a la altura de la reconstrucción] and this is also mentioned towards others”, say PP sources, who directly point to the government’s responsibility. “The president of the Generalitat has already explained himself and now it is the turn of Ribera, Marlaska, Robles and Pedro Sánchez. Even Page did not appear,” they denounce. More errors Within the PP, it is openly recognized that the management of DANA could have been better, but these errors are assumed with humility, underlining the exceptional nature of the meteorological phenomenon which dumped in Valencia a quantity of water exceeding all the forecasts. Thus, no one in the leadership specifically supported Mazón’s initial reaction to the tragedy, but they did support the way the regional baron subsequently turned. National deputies like Macarena Montesinos and Belén Hoyo went to the Valencian Parliament this Friday to support Mazón during his speech. A gesture which shows that beyond the leadership, the party continues to support the president of the Generalitat, with whom Feijóo maintains fluid communication today. The national leader followed the intervention from Galicia, where he participated in an event alongside Alfonso Rueda, president of the Xunta. From there, he clearly heard the message agreed with Mazón and urged him not to make any more mistakes during the reconstruction, because “the people will not accept them and will not deserve them.”
