Jordi Mairemayor of Cullera, denies that Carlos Mazón asked him questions about DANA during the telephone conversation they had on October 29. The mayor thus confirms that the president of the Generalitat Valenciana called himthe day the storm hit the Valencian Community.
It was Mazón himself WHO used the mayor, in the statements he made this Sunday upon his arrival at the CECOPI meeting, to justify that he did not miss “five hours”, as he is accused, but that He was aware of the situation when he arrived at the CECOPI meeting today and addressing his government team, as well as the municipalities affected by the storm.
The president defended to the media that he was at no time in secret and, in fact, he remembered The mayor who spoke of “6:28 p.m.” monitor – according to him – the situation in the Valencian municipality after the passage of DANA.
Information that the mayor himself denies on his social media account
In the same vein, he categorically denies having accused him of having been held incommunicado for hours, because “We know he was communicating with someone.“, he said in reference to the meal he had with the journalist Maribel Vilaplana.
After that, the councilor criticizes him for having been absent for “five hours” having received a “red alert” from AEMET concerning his autonomous community. “I have said and I will always say that no protocol says that in a red alert, you can go eat for five hours at a restaurant”, he writes, and adds: “I thought he was calling me from CECOPI, but today We already know that this was a more typical call from someone who has just come out of a five-hour meal.“, he concludes.
In another interview that Jordi Mayor gave this morning, he says that the Mazón had a “joyous tone” and even “frivolous” during this call and that he did not ask him any questions, at any time, about the flooding of the river or the DANA; but it was he himself who decided to inform the president. According to him, he explained that although it was not raining in the city, they were monitoring the situation of the flows that pass through the municipality.
Likewise, the councilor indicated that on the same day of the storm he informed the town hall that Mazón had called him, but it was only then that the content of the conversation was made public.