Emergency management corresponds to the autonomous communities. The Spanish Civil Protection Law, approved by the PP in 2015, establishes that state intervention in the event of a disaster located in a territory falls to the central government on its own initiative or at the request of the regional president when he is not capable of it. The Valencian Civil Protection and Emergency Management Law gives the power to the President of the Generalitat to declare a “catastrophic emergency situation”, a possibility that would allow Carlos Mazón “to assume sole command and direction of all emergency activities”. Anything written or maintained ignoring any of these precepts is a lie, deception, or an intention to avoid the issue.
On October 29, 2024, the province of Valencia suffered one of the worst weather episodes in memory, which cost the lives of more than 215 people. DANA could not have been avoided, but emergency management officials could have done more to prevent the disaster from being of such magnitude. At least, in human lives. Neither the emergency team was prepared, nor the President of the Generalitat was on site and the population was not alerted in time. The evidence from the events we have recounted over the past two weeks about what was done and what was not done is devastating.
