The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, did not want to comment on the management of the DANA in Valencia and its political responsibilities and stressed that it focuses on “aid”.
“We are experiencing a tragedy. We did not sleep last night trying to find out how we can help from Madrid,” he said, assuring that we are suffering “a lot” with the Valencians.
“Every day, Madrilenians tell us in the street, they feel what is happening and the helplessness generated by the fact that everyone wants to collaborate and often does not know how,” declared the regional leader, visibly moved, during ‘a visit to Hayedo de Montejo. .
Ayuso, who was directly asked How do you value the management of the President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, and whether or not he would be in favor of declaring a national emergency, indicated that it is unimaginable “the bad body” they have and “how difficult it is” for them to “maintain the institutional agenda”, a “certain normality” and “a certain smile in front of the cameras” when inside they are “destroyed”.
“I can’t tell you more than we are going to be there to help you. I always feel like I have to support something more for Valencia. I’m not going to make any statements. I can’t. I’ I’m sorry, I just want the best for the people of Valencia, knowing that we are going to reach all the municipalities, that we are not going to leave a house and that I cannot get involved in anything other than what it has to be done from Madrid (…) I’m lying to you if I give you an answer”, replied the president.
The head of the regional Executive insisted that They don’t think about “anything else” that how to help because it is “frustrating to see every morning and every evening the testimonies of good people who suffer and know that they have lost everything”. “I have no words. I’m sorry,” he said, before emphasizing that “with time” conclusions will be drawn and what happened will be seen.
Asked when Madrid was activated a little over a year ago the alert that reached cell phones to warn the DANA which affected the communes of the south-east of the region, declared that he does not know how many lives could have been saved but it is possible that there were “many” since “thanks to the “that the emergency services were activated in time”, which was not the case. They were deployed, for example, in the Metropolitan stadium where he had played, “they could all have been intended 100% for the Alberche area”.
“Thanks to this alert, probably many tourists, especially foreigners, who were with their families, were able to move away from the banks of the rivers. Thanks to this, all the roads, some of which were flooded and bridges collapsed, were have now been closed clearly so we are satisfied with the activation of the alert”, he stressed, while recognizing that at the beginning, it had been “a bit of a joke”, because in the center of. the city, it is not usual for “these natural disasters to occur”. “
