The Valencian president himself, Carlos Mazonraised many expectations by marking this Thursday as the key day to speak political responsibilities for the management of the DANA emergencythe effects of which cost the lives of 215 people in Valencia.
The PP baron has been postponing for days any explanation about his appearance at the regional parliament. In addition to presenting his account of what happened during the emergency, the Valencian president will devote a good part of his speech to explain your plan to cope with the enormous work that reconstruction will involve.
This is expected to have an impact new tax reductions for those affected, in addition to those in the approved decree-law in the last Valencian Government Council and other assistance. Among them, it has already been clarified that those who lost their homes or cars due to floods will not have to pay the main transferred taxes, that of property transfers and that of documented legal acts related to the purchase to replace them. Also in the autonomous income section, deductions have been introduced for the expenses of the affected persons on housing and furniture, as well as for donations.
Another of the measures that will be presented is the creation of a new organization, the Autonomous Instrument of Response, Attention and Reconstruction against DANA in Valenciacreated specifically to manage a plan of this magnitude, for which the Generalitat takes as a model the formulas used during the pandemic crisis.
change of face
Although the Valencian president maintains that responsibility also lies with the central government, the Valencian PP assumes that there will be an overhaul of its executive to try to face the image crisis and regain leadership. A few changes imposed in the face of indignation and popular outcry caused by the disaster.
In the popular ranks it is assured that the priority of the changes is to adapt the autonomous government to the new situation focused on reconstruction, but it is clear that Mazón will have to sacrifice pieces. According to The countrywill leave the Regional Executive the head of Emergencies, the Minister of Justice and Interior, Salomé Pradas, and the Minister of Innovation and Tourism, Nuria Montes.
Pradas was responsible for the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi) and even claimed to have learned of the existence of the mobile alert system from a technician that same afternoon, although he later tried to fix it. Mazón himself insisted that he was not part of Cecopi and that this body was fully operational after criticism regarding the delay in his participation in the DANA day.
For her part, the head of Innovation, Tourism and Industry, Nuria Montes, was also singled out, in her case, for her lack of public empathy towards the victims and those affected. Montes even apologized for the tone with which he declared that family members would not be allowed access to the area where the deceased were held at Feria Valencia.
More weight for the vice president
The communication errors of the Valencian government were another of the most criticized points. Mazón personally chose a person from outside the PP, Ruth Merino, also Minister of Treasury and Ciudadanos, as spokesperson for the Consell. In recent days, whoever took over communications has been Vice President Susana Camarerowith more than two decades of experience in Administration and PP.
Everything indicates that Camarero’s vice-presidency will expand his functions and powers for reconstruction, in addition to recovering PP veterans with more experience in the Administration.
