Crossing of accusations between the Government and the Generalitat Valenciana for the alert management. Less than three hours passed this Thursday between the announcement of red alert launched by AEMET and the text messages that the neighbors Castellón warning them of what might happen.
On this occasion, the Generalitat It took ten hours less last Tuesday to send these alert messages. A delay for which Carlos Mazonpresident of the Generalitat, tries to place the blame on the central government by assuring that “it is a protocolized system, which was followed by all the technicians, who coordinates the General Directorate of Civil Protection of the Spanish Government“.
However, the Ministry of the Interior is categorical and insists that the management of Civil Protection plans It is the exclusive responsibility of the communities and, to this intersection of accusations, Compromís also contributed. “There are deaths due to DANA and deaths due to the political management of DANA“, declared the deputy of the parliamentary group Àgueda Micó. She criticized the Valencian president for having deleted from his networks certain statements that he himself had made a few hours before the disaster and in which he warned against “the “red alert for rains throughout the country”, coastal and inland”, which was going to be in force until “6:00 p.m.” Tuesday.
For his part, Alberto Núñez Feijóo supports Mazón leadership the fault of AEMET, the first to have alerted the red notice on the Valencian Community at 7:36 a.m. Tuesday. The leader of the popular parties blamed this organization which, according to his defense, is “central government jurisdiction“.
In government, they maintain their version. The Minister of Transport, Oscar Puentecriticized the fact that the opposition wants to “build a story” out of the disaster and added that it is there to “take care of people and resolve what happened as quickly as possible“They insist there will be time to talk about this issue.
