The leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, responded against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, after urging the President of the Valencian Community, Carlos Mazón, to ask for more resources if he needs them after the damage caused by DANA. “In the event of a national emergency no government waits, but it acts” Feijoo recriminated.
In a press release published on the social network “unspeakable” pain. In this sense, Feijóo praised the “admirable resistance” of the Generalitat Valenciana and the rest of the autonomous communities and municipalities who “only think about helping the people.” Nothing else,” he added.
According to the opposition leader, this is not a problem of the autonomous community but of “national emergency”. “It doesn’t help, that’s what heroic volunteers do. It’s doing one’s duty. everything at once“, he added.
We are facing a national emergency and our duty is to help people. pic.twitter.com/mpH1PVV9W0
– Alberto Núñez Feijóo (@NunezFeijoo) November 2, 2024
Feijóo’s response comes after Sánchez emphasized in his institutional statement after the crisis committee that “the central government is ready to help” and told Mazón that “if it needs more resources, it should ask for them » and they will be provided “immediately”. “.
“Let him ask for them.”
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, stressed this Saturday that “the central government is ready to help” and informed the President of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, that “If you need more resources, ask for them”.
In an institutional statement made from La Moncloa after chairing the Fourth Crisis Commission responsible for monitoring the effects of DANA, Sánchez declared that “it is not necessary to give priority to certain municipalities over others nor to prioritize tasks; is a priority when resources are lacking and that’s not the case.”
In this sense, he added that if the Valencian Community needs more personnel, machines, financing or technical advice, “just ask” and that such assistance will be provided “immediately.”
The Spanish government is assisting the regional authorities in everything they have requested.
The priority is to save lives. We have activated the largest deployment which has already carried out 4,800 rescues and helped more than 30,000 people in homes, roads and industrial areas… pic.twitter.com/1qqougbsOR
– Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) November 2, 2024
“The Valencian authorities know the terrain better than anyone,” he explained, before emphasizing that they “know what to do and, If they don’t have enough resources, they should ask for them again. to the General Administration of the State.
“This way of proceeding, which combines the capillarity and proximity of local and regional administrations with the collective power of the central government, has allowed our country to successfully overcome numerous natural disasters and previous crises that we all have in our heads and in the heart.”, he said.
