Mazón did not arrive at the meeting until seven in the afternoon due to the deadly DANA in Valencia

The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, says he has excluded from his official agenda a “working lunch” on October 29, the day the worst cold drop of the 21st century devastated the province of Valencia.

The head of the Regional Executive insists on not revealing its contents or with whom he shared the lunch, who reiterates that it was not a recreational meeting. That same Thursday, when the controversy broke out, he denied that it was a private meeting.

That day, while the red alert was in force in the province of Valencia, the Minister of Justice and Interior, Salomé Pradas, convened a meeting of the Integrated Center at five in the afternoon of operational coordination of the Generalitat to monitor a DANA, which Finally, there were more than two hundred deaths.

While the destruction was already visible and details of the first deaths from the flood were known, Mazón maintained his official agenda that day. After a final meeting with the president of the regional employers’ association and the general secretaries of the UGT and the Workers’ Commissions of the Valencian Community, the president of the Generalitat left the Palau de la Generalitat and went to a restaurant from the center of the capital of Turia.

Mazón only joined the CECOPI meeting at seven in the afternoon, when much of the province of Valencia was already suffering from the devastating effects of the cold.