No resignations or layoffs. The Valencian president Carlos Mazon He remains at the head of the Generalitat with a “new objective, recognizing that it could have been done better”, but without self-criticism or discussions about dismissals. The “popular” sets itself the main objective of facing the reconstruction of the Valencian Community after the DANA. A tragedy for which he buried the guilt in (much inaccurate) data during more than two hours of speeches during which he did not speak of layoffs in his government.
Mazón announced a vice-presidency for economic and social recovery who will lead the interparliamentary recovery commission in which all the advisors will be present. Also, the creation of a new Ministry of Emergencies and Interior. A new department, according to Mazón, dedicated exclusively to “prevention and action in the face of crises” and also “pedagogy”. A new Generalitat with a “modern and efficient structure” in which Mazón has not announced any layoffs.
More than two and a half hours of speeches during which did not mention the Ministers of Justice and the Interior interviewed, Salome Pradasand Tourism and Industry, Nuria Montes. The president also left unresolved the question of who will head the vice-presidency that will coordinate the restructuring.
But he deepened, in the same line of his critical speech against the “lack of information and coordination”, that these new structures will guarantee “that the emergency services have a central point of coordination to act” with more efficiency, speed and prevention. .
A exculpatory account of one’s own inaction during DANA’s most critical moments where he “erased” his lunch of more than three hours with a journalist and his arrival two hours late to the CECOPI meeting, during which it was decided to send the alert to the Valencians. Mazón, who already arrived at the meeting with flooded streets and calls for dramatic situations, defended that there was “traffic” that delayed him and that his absence did not delay the decision-making .
And although he now recovers an emergency service, he takes no responsibility for having systematically reduced the emergency management budget since his arrival in the Valencian government, eliminating (with his partner Vox) the emergency unit created by Ximo Puig in 2023 by considering it “a beach bar”.
