“The central government has not informed us anything.” This is one of the ideas that the president of the Popular Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, reiterated during his visit to Valencia after the storm that leaves nearly a hundred dead. A criticism of the Executive which, a few minutes before its baron of the region, Carlos Mazonfled. The Valencian has clearly shown his desire to “renounce bad politics” in tragic moments like this, where the rescue work they continue.
Feijóo began his appearance with a message of gratitude to the media for “your coverage in real time”; with another of “solidarity” with those affected, to whom he assured that “all of Spain is aware of what is happening and what has happened”; as well as another of “condolences” for the loss of human lives. However, it was the “popular” regional presidents, and even the socialist Emiliano García-Page, who won the “applause” of their leader.
Congratulations, because the “popular” – as “the party with an absolute majority in the Senate and the majority party in Congress” – has “it was necessary to report what was happening through the regional presidents.” Something serious for Feijóo if we consider that this “meteorological event” was not located “exclusively in a single territory”, despite the fact that “point zero, at the moment, is the Valencian Community”.
In the eyes of the “popular”, it is “a national emergency”, for whom management is necessary “humanity, solidarity and collaboration”, which, he emphasizes, existed between him and the regional presidents, but not on the part of the central government: “I would not ask to the government greater collaboration, but for some”, he declared, adding at the same time that “the only thing” he knew “is that the crisis committee met on Tuesday at eleven o’clock in the evening,” he added.
Defense of Mazon
Throughout the intervention, Feijóo had already shown pride in his baron in Valencia, but Mazón’s fierce defense came when he was asked about criticism regarding the delay in alerting the population of this that was happening. To this end, the “popular” leader explained that the Generalitat warns and takes decisions “according to the information I received” from other organizations. Precisely, those that fall under the responsibility of the “central government” such as “AEMET or the Hydrographic Confederations,” Feijóo emphasized.
Of course, Feijóo wanted to make it clear that the objective of this trip was to “know the room you are coordinating from”; “the damage assessment” or “what is the operation”; as well as “recognizing that there is still a tremendous amount of work to be done, not only for the coming months and, in some cases, for the years to come.” Apparently unintentionally, he once again attacked the government.
