The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, announced this Saturday the creation of five committees to manage the crisis generated by DANA. The regional leader accepts the offer of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and creates five immediate intervention groups, each headed by an advisor, and demands the incorporation of several ministers and the Chief of Staff. Mazón, five days after the start of the floods, also requested that the application mechanisms for the European Solidarity Fund be accelerated.
The regional leader took charge of managing the crisis, taking up the challenge from the central government. As stated during an appearance, a few hours after the announced press conference and with a crisis committee waiting eight hours late, the groups “will act for my delegation led by an advisor”.
Government sources consulted by elDiario.es guarantee the collaboration of ministers in these working groups and assure that depending on the subject, the competent ministers and officials will be present because there is no time to lose. On the military level, logically, the representative will be the brigadier general of the UME and the general of the UME deployed in the Zone, they indicate.
Mazón valued the work of the volunteers, whom he thanked for their mobilization, and underlined: “The humanitarian catastrophe that we are experiencing demonstrates that we are faced with an emergency whose dimension is not limited to the local, provincial, regional. .or national. “It will be up to us, Valencians, to resolve it with the essential help of Spain and Europe.”
Working groups
These groups will focus on five areas: health, infrastructure, housing and social services, employment and business and interior. The first committee will be the Health group led by Minister of Health Marciano Gómez and requests the incorporation of Minister Mónica García. Its main objective will be the development of an epidemiological risk plan jointly evaluated by experts in epidemiology and prevention. The Infrastructure group will be led by the Minister of Infrastructure, Vicente Martínez Mus, and the Minister of Agriculture, Miguel Barrachina, will participate, and the incorporation of Minister Óscar Puente is requested. The main objective is the implementation of a global urgent recovery plan for the road network and infrastructure.
Third, the Social Services and Housing group, in which Vice President Susana Camarero and Finance Minister Ruth Merino will participate; The incorporation of the Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy, and the Minister of Housing Isabel Rodríguez is requested. The main objective will be to relocate people and rebuild houses, as well as a set of measures in favor of vulnerable people. The mobilization of the entire public housing stock of the State and in particular of Sareb for all necessary moves is also requested, and that the accommodation be immediately equipped. They will also seek banking intermediation for the suspension of mortgages and loans.
The fourth group will be that of Employment and Business, led by the Minister of Employment, José Antonio Rovira and the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Nuria Montes, to whom the Vice President and Minister of Employment Yolanda Díaz and Minister of Employment. Minister of Economy Carlos Corps. The main objective will be the authorization of all legal instruments to make the Temporary Work Regulatory Files (ERTE) compatible as in the event of a pandemic.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, said on Saturday that the central government is ready to act, if the Generalitat needs more resources, it asks for them”, said Sánchez, “the Valencian authorities know the terrain better than anyone, they know”
The fifth group will be the Interior, led by the Minister of Justice of the Interior, Salomé Pradas, and solicited by the already current Minister of the Interior, Fernándo Grande-Marlaska. The priority will be troop reinforcement and security control and access to affected areas to prevent theft and looting.
