“This government is not going to give updonate to the victims. No resignation is an option.. “We can only look forward to continuing to work towards recovery and restitution for the damage caused in the midst of the greatest crisis this country has seen in recent years.”
This is how the Vice President of the Generalitat, Susana Camarero, spoke this Sunday, after the massive demonstration that demanded this Saturday the resignation of the regional president, Carlos Mazón, for his management of the catastrophic DANA which devastated the province of Valencia in October. 29.
The message was clear. “Absolute respect” and “understanding” in the face of the population’s indignation. Concerning the mistakes made, the Consell focuses on reconstruction. Self-criticism will come later. To the victims of the disaster, Camarero assured: “I don’t think they care about some of the issues they talk about in the media,” but rather how we can help them get their lives back.
She and Mazón himself spoke to journalists about the appearance that the head of the Valencian Executive will make next Thursday at the Valencian Cortes to give “very detailed explanations”questioned by the contradictory versions proposed by the Consell on different issues. Until then, according to the vice-president, “the entire Valencian government is at the disposal of the president.” Any decision and its communication “belongs to him”.
“I want to remind you that it was my initiative. I have not seen anyone request to appear in another parliamentary seat of any institution,” insisted Mazón upon his arrival at the CECOPI meeting.
“Out of respect for those who feel this pain and frustration, for whom we work, I do not want to qualify other behaviors that you all saw yesterday and that I believe the victims and the people of Valencia do not deserve,” he said. he declared. said, in reference to the acts of vandalism committed by radicals during the demonstration demanding his resignation in Valencia.
In the same spirit, Camarero regretted that “the pain of those affected is politicized.” “It saddens us that there was violent groups that at the end of a legitimate and peaceful demonstration that showed signs of this pain, they provoked riots,” he noted.
“The groups who called for protests must feel the same pain as us and condemn and denounce these serious events, because they distort the reality of the message. “I’m sure this is not what they were looking for and expecting,” she added, expressing solidarity with the 31 injured police officers.
Asked whether the tens of thousands of people who responded to the call were Catalan supporters, Camarero said there were people who “really” came to show their outrage, but others ‘had used “politically”.
Coverage failure on 112
On the other hand, the Vice President of the Generalitat recognized a lack of coverage in the Emergency Coordination Center 112 of Eliana on the day of the flood. “There was a specific system crash that day caused by DANA itself, which He recovered within a few hours.“, she said, when asked about the explanations provided by President Carlos Mazón regarding the unanswered calls to Minister Teresa Ribera on the afternoon of October 29.
Camarero insisted that Ribera only called Mazón at 8:17 p.m.: “A call that is lost because he doesn’t know the number.” Ribera sent him an SMS (8:20 p.m.), “after the alert”.
