The management of DANA, which has caused the death of more than 220 people in the province of Valencia, is causing a profound erosion of the figure of the President of the Generalitat, the popular Carlos Mazón. The head of the Consell was due to appear this Sunday in Massanassa, a town where a Tragsa employee died after the sidewalk of a school badly affected by flooding that he was inspecting with other workers fell on him – another person was slightly injured. leg injuries and head abrasions. However, the head of the Consell changed his mind and went to the Palau de la Generalitat where he called an emergency meeting with staff from Tragsa and the Ministry of Education.
Mazón announced his decision after learning of the tension that reigned in Massanassa, where the government delegate in the Valencian Community, the socialist Pilar Bernabé, was received amid cries of “assassins”. The one who went to the town of Horta Sud is vice-president Susana Camarero. A group of indignant neighbors, gathered near the Lluís Vives school, shouted against the political management of DANA and insults and reproaches could be heard against the President of the Generalitat and the central government, to whom they criticized for not having gone to Massanassa until there was a fatal accident.
This is not the first time that Mazón has been received with insults at “ground zero” of the storm. The head of the Consell was present on Sunday, November 3, when Mazón accompanied the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and Kings Felipe VI and Letizia, who were received in Paiporta with mud and insults. The attacks on Sánchez, who was hit in the back with a stick without major consequences, were claimed by the far right.
Later, three weeks after the storm, Mazón would return to take refuge with the kings to visit Chiva and Utiel. However, this did not prevent the head of the Consell from being received again with cries, this time isolated, of “we don’t like you”, “scoundrel”, “resignation” or “where were you eating” .
The president also had to endure the cries of his neighbors during his visit to the town of Torrent, a fortnight ago, when a group of people greeted him by chanting “Mazón resign”, calling him an “assassin » and “scoundrel” and accusing him of “negligence”. » and “incompetence” for the deaths of more than 220 people, accusing him of having attended a meal instead of being present in Cecopi or of not having launched the alert earlier.
Carlos Mazón had to return this Sunday from Alicante, where he was spending the weekend, following the death of the 51-year-old Tragsa employee. Precisely, the president, like the recently appointed Minister of Emergencies, Juan Carlos Valderrama, participated this weekend by videoconference in Cecopi while precisely from the Consell and the Popular Party have repeatedly criticized Pilar Bernabé for not having attended in person at the Integrated Council meeting. Eliana operational coordination center on October 29, when the 5 p.m. meeting was called barely three quarters of an hour in advance.
Two weeks ago, a massive demonstration attended by some 130,000 people took to the streets of central Valencia to demand the resignation of President Mazón over his handling of the tragedy. This Saturday, another march, much less attended, also demanded the resignation of the head of the Consell and the Minister of Education, José Antonio Rovira, for the management of DANA in educational matters.
