The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazonannounced the creation of a new Department of Emergencies and the Interiora department which will serve to “protect and ensure the security of Valencians”, and a new Vice-Presidency and Ministry of Economic and Social Recovery.
It was in these terms that he spoke during his appearance at the Valencian Cortes to report on the management of DANA on October 29.
“We will coordinate the recovery of Valencia and the Valencian Community by harmonizing the actions of the Consell to lay the foundations for the future that we will now build,” he said.
Mazón made the announcements at the end of his opening speech. As it evolves, it will create “a new government structure“. “A new Consell for recovery born with the clear and firm objective of ensure that social and economic recovery reaches every corner of the Valencian Community“, he said.
It will be, as explained, a “dynamic, modern and efficient” structureled by the new vice-presidency which will coordinate all departments in reconstruction measures.
Furthermore, the new Department of Emergency and Interior – so far Justice and Interior – will analyze the risks and establish protocols that will go “from health emergencies to natural disasters”, as well as greater citizen awareness.
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Furthermore, he claimed Spanish government the most of 31 billion euros requested to help those affected by DANA and to face the reconstruction of the Valencian Community.
In this sense, he assured that this amount is not “a figure or something that results from an improvisation, even less from a whim, but from a rigorous calculation on the part of the technicians to begin to recover the territory after the storm.
This recovery, he argued, “we cannot do it alone”, but in the Valencian Community the government is necessary and “does not abandon the Valencians to their fate”. It is for this reason that it demanded 31 billion euros to cover the costs of repairing infrastructure and the productive fabric.
“It’s not a number, it’s the missing door of a house, the missing vehicle to be able to go to work for people who have lost everything,” he stressed.
On the other hand, he also claimed the 2.091 million euros that the European Union granted to Spain as part of the recovery plan in June 2021, particularly at the post of preservation of the coastline and water resources.
Likewise, he argued that the Generalitat would request the activation of LOSS for the Digitalization of Water“endowed with 3,060 million euros and which was approved too long ago, in March 2022”.
“We must be able to count on technologies that already exist and are already applied in other basins, such as that of the Ebro, to convert the still photo of the rains into a precise projection of the flows that anticipates how, when and where the wave of a flood will advance,” he added.
Mazón emphasized that the Valencian Community needs this technology “so that tomorrow, when it rains in Chiva, it can anticipate us with enough time to react, with enough time to take measures”, or to know “how many “water will arrive and how, for example, in Paiporta and at what time”.
“It is obvious that we need a lot of money, but it is also true that every euro allocated to the Valencian Community is returned to all of Spain multiplied by ten. Money that is not intended to test anyone , not even the government, but. so that the Valencian people do not live under pressure for the next 20 years“, he defended himself.
In this context, it showed the “total” commitment of the Consell to the recovery of the region after DANA. “We are committed to being better prepared for future climate disasters. Committed to the imperative to serve and care for every member of our Community,” he insisted.
As proof, Mazón mentioned the “extraordinary and ambitious” plan launched with the Consell and which includes 136 measures “aimed at economic, social, structural and environmental recovery” of Valencia and the entire Valencian Community” and which was sent to the Government to operate the two institutions “jointly”.
“We must know how to work together for the economic and social recovery of our territory, citizens would not understand anything else,” said the president of the Consell.
And he stressed that all these measures “aim not only to restore normality, but also to create a resilient infrastructure, ensure the well-being of all and offer the necessary tools so that each affected sector can resume its activity with dignity and strength . “
This is a project, he declared, born from “the will and hope of thousands of Valencians”: “It is a road map for recovery and a guarantee that no one will be forgotten in the process.”
And that includes, as he pointed out, direct aid to help municipalities “rebuild each affected community, which is essential in providing access to the resources needed to immediately respond to the emergency.”
In short, he affirmed that the “recovery of cities, industries and the return to normal” for the thousands of families affected by DANA “cannot depend solely on the resources of a regional administration”, which he considers as “obvious”.
“It is the hands and resources of all that will make a full and equitable recovery possible.“, he warned.
For this reason, he argued that collaboration between institutions should “happen naturally as a response of a government sensitive and aware of its role in the well-being of citizens”.
