The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazonrecognized that errors were made during the management of DANA in the Valencian province and announced the creation of a commission of inquiry within the autonomous chamber. “I am not going to deny the failures, it is not possible and it would not be useful, it would imply that we have learned nothing and that we are not willing to learn, for fear of political attrition or for take advantage of “, he assured during his appearance at the Valencian Cortes. However, the leader popular insisted that they did not have all the details that would have been necessary. “We don’t have enough information in time,” Mazón assured.
He stressed that “answers are needed about what happened, why it happened,” questions he called “legitimate,” as opposed to “insidiousness” and hoaxes. “It is legitimate to wonder if the system responded as we thought it should react,” he underlined in his speech to the Valencian Cortes. “For that, I have a first answer: he didn’t do it,” he said.
On the other hand, she also looked at the “prevention and warning systems” which consider that they did not offer “all possible guarantees”. In this sense, he referred to the “rainfall and river flow measurement systems” which he considers “fundamental for collecting the information that must be evaluated by technicians.” These systems, he points out, “were overwhelmed by the water level,” so much so that they ended up being “washed away” and “washed away by the flood.”
Mazón also talked about “alert protocols,” which he questioned whether they were working as they should. Among other things, he pointed out that there was only one measuring point in the Barranco del Poyo, which overflowed and was the main cause of the Valencia tragedy. “They were not designed to correct even human error when applied,” he insisted.
The President of the Valencian Generalitat doubted that the “actors involved” had “enough information in a timely manner to apply action protocols that until now had worked in other somewhat similar situations.”
commission of inquiry
The regional leader of the PP announced that he would launch a commission of inquiry before the Valencian courts into the management of DANA by the community government. “Valencians have the right to know everything that happened, the information that was processed and the decisions that were taken during an emergency for which we must today and now seek an explanation. We need to know why our previous experience in this type of situation and the refined protocols that have worked until now have not been enough to avoid or mitigate the terrible damage we have suffered,” he said from the podium. speakers.
“For this reason, the popular parliamentary group will present a proposal for the creation of a commission of inquiry to analyze in these Cortes, with light and stenographers, how many questions have already been raised or could be raised until its constitution regarding the response to the worst tragedy in our recent history and I hope, because it cannot be otherwise, that a commission of inquiry is also created within the Cortes Generales”, he continued.
