The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, asked the President of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, to focus “more on needs and less on justifications”. Even avoiding direct confrontation with the regional leader after his appearance during which he shared responsibility for his disastrous management of DANAI reminded him that he carries “15 days waiting for a list with order of priorities“.
Continuing the Government’s strategy and his own, Puente listed this Monday in an interview with TVE the progress of the Ministry in the Community: “Mobility to enter or exit is almost normal.” “Capillarity in Valencia is something else, the local roads are still affected“, he assured, recalling that the Cercanías are operating at “99%”. “We have trains to certain points and the rest with buses. For Christmas we want C1 and C2 to work and we would have C3 which we want to reach Aldaia before December,” he said.
However, if we talk about the regional network, “it cannot give dates”: “I have been waiting for 15 days for a list with order of priorities from the Generalitat and we have only received a simple declaration”. “We want to intervene in certain infrastructures and we will agree on that, but we need documentation“Puente assured.
Regarding Mazón’s speech last Friday at the Corts Valencianes, he did not want to participate because he “other priorities“. He limited himself to emphasizing that he must “understand with this government and if he likes it, which is tempting, this relationship that he needs would be vitiated”. “Yes, I want to see this government more focused on needs and less on justifications“, criticized the minister. Likewise, he criticized a tweet that “irritated” him at 7:00 p.m. about the third vice-president and Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera.
“Our agenda is to recover Valencia”
For this reason, he indicated that “he is waiting for a list of routes”: “Please, let’s focus on what time it will be to discuss who is responsible.” Regarding the breaking of the truce with the PP, he indicated that “this is part of a meeting in Moncloa and we are not talking about justifications, there is only a constant review of needs, progress, mud, reconstruction, missing people”. “NOur program is to recover Valencia“Puente emphasized.
Regarding Ribera’s appearance at the Congress of Deputies, he supportedenithat it is a “clear strategy aimed at diverting attention”. “There are operations to justify things that are discussed in themselves, especially before the tragedy. There are two parts: prevention and reaction. In the second part, many things can be discussed, but in the first there are few things that are questionable and I think that the PP is trying to save by extending the responsibility to others”, accused.
Likewise, he argued that Ribera “will give explanations and more information than we already know about the information they had in the Valencian Community.” “And the PP will oppose these arguments which They have more pranks than anything else“, he said. In addition, he assured that Mazón “gave several versions”, emphasizing that “he does not believe the last one”: “I have that right”.
“I don’t fit into everyone’s role. For four hours We don’t know where (Mazón) was. You know your version… when you give four different explanations, you generate the right not to believe yourself“, he insisted, adding that “handing over responsibilities to Ribera” is a “usual tactic” of the PP to avoid taking responsibility.
