Feijóo accuses the government in the midst of the tragedy while Mazón denounces it with a joint appearance with Sánchez in which he thanks its proximity and its “very rapid response”. It has been described and demonstrated that a natural disaster can also be a disaster for political leaders.
Feijóo defends Mazón and questions AEMET forecasts on DANA
Always belligerent. Still the old playbook against the adversary. Always the politicization of misfortunes. Always denial. The responsibility always lies with someone else. Polarization always maximum. Always out of personal interest. Always the infomercial before the pain of others.
Valencia devastated by tsunami; at least 158 dead, dozens missing; thousands of people who saved their lives, but lost everything; emergency crews have faded away and are still working on search efforts…. And they do their thing. There is no worse or more obscene strategy in the face of human misfortune than trying to profit from it. And in this, Feijóo is beginning to be a master. Or an exceptional Ayuso student.
The good politician’s handbook says that it is in moments of crisis that we know the size and number of those who represent us, whether in opposition or in government. It all depends on the image that each person projects. But these are undoubtedly occasions where the true potential of leaders is discovered, whose role must be limited to providing information, affection, answers and, above all, being where they need to be at the right time.
Feijóo was therefore right to go to Valencia, but not to engage in an embarrassing and unfair competition to arrive in front of the President of the Government in the area of the tragedy. La Moncloa announced Wednesday evening at 9:37 p.m. that the President of Government would go this Thursday at 10:30 a.m. to the Emergency Coordination Center to learn first-hand about the situation and determine if additional resources were needed. Spain could supply and this was reported in advance to Mazón.
Half an hour later, at 10:06 p.m., the PP issued a statement announcing that Feijóo would go to the same location an hour earlier. A classic institutional disloyalty, in addition to a signal as obscene as it is embarrassing in the middle of a tragedy still undetermined on the human and material level, which will be followed by an opportunistic and inappropriate declaration.
Feijóo, who took less than 24 hours to politicize the tragedy in his crude maneuver to overthrow the institutional order, made a statement to accuse Sánchez and hold the central government responsible for a possible failure of the protocols and exonerate the Valencian Generalitat . “A regional president manages according to the information he receives. And the information received is information that depends on bodies with exclusive jurisdiction of the central government,” he said.
The truth, and not the alternative version that Feijóo gave of the events, is that the AEMET (State Meteorological Agency) raised the alert of the Valencian Community to the red level on Tuesday at 7:36 a.m., as can be seen on the social network. , while emergency alerts from the Generalitat only reached Valencians at eight in the afternoon, when there were already dozens of people stuck and desperately asking for help.
Feijóo’s words were so ignominious that even his own baron, Carlos Mazón, distanced himself from them during a joint appearance with Sánchez to display an image of unity, in which he thanked the president of the government for his “closeness » and his “very prompt response.” It is embarrassing to see how, while Spain continues to be afflicted by the devastation caused by DANA and emergency services continue to collect bodies, the leader of a party that calls itself a State and a opposition which claims to be responsible behaves like Feijóo. . He was represented. Once again.
Time will have to demand political responsibilities which, according to the data and testimonies that are beginning to become known, point to the Generalitat chaired by Mazón; deepen the importance that the right gives to security issues by delegating this issue to a party like Vox, as it did during the formation of the Valencian government in 2023; why the regional president deleted a tweet in which he declared on Tuesday that the intensity of the storm would decrease around six in the afternoon or how there are politicians so clumsy and incapable of managing the emotional factor in moments of contemplation and national dismay.
Feijóo showed that a natural disaster can also be a disaster for political leaders.
