The partners of Pedro Sanchez at the Congress of Deputies took advantage of the unrest that occurred this Sunday in Paiportaknown as zero point of DANA, which has already caused more than 200 deaths, to attack the king Philip VI while the government remains silent, at least publicly.
During the visit to the Kings, Pedro Sanchez And Carlos Mazon in the aforementioned Valencian municipality they were received with shouts and insults and with the throwing of objects and mud.
From the start of the incidents, the President of the Government abandonment the official delegation, after a neighbor threw a stick at his back, which never reached him.
However, Philip VI And Letizia They continued to walk and talk with the neighbors, calming their minds and listening to them. The president of the Generalitat Valenciana also stayed, trying to mediate, at a moment of maximum tension.
For the head of the Juntas, Carles Puigdemontthe neighbors’ reaction “was predictable and gives the impression that the situation is going to get worse.” In a message on social networks, the former Catalan president mocked the monarchs for having been received with mud: “Muddy up to the crown (sic), they will leave with their tail between their legs.”
Another party that makes up Sánchez’s inauguration bloc, Podemos, also harshly criticized Felipe VI’s visit. “It’s pure disgust,” he even declared. Ione Belarrageneral secretary of the party founded by Pablo Iglesias. “It is normal for people to get angry if official visits can be arranged, including that of the king, along with aid and troops to humanely rescue the corpses and clean up the flooded waters and mud where infections will proliferate are not available.
“The institutions are at the service of the people and not the people at the service of the King’s photo,” declared the MEP. Irene Montero.
Criticism of the monarchical institution was also added Commitments. “The visit was a provocation,” criticized the nationalist coalition, which claims to understand “the wave of rejection generated by the presence of the head of state.
For his part, Gabriel Rufiancriticized the fact that Felipe VI takes people for “idiots”.
The position of Moncloa
And although the government has not publicly commented on the presence of the head of state in Paiporta, unofficial sources consulted by EL ESPAÑOL affirm that this visit Never this must have happened.
The government tried to get the kings to visit only the crisis control and monitoring center installed in Valencia, but not the areas most affected by DANA, where, according to these same sources, organized far-right movements have been detected.
Official sources of Moncloa have confirmed that the president left the delegation when the security protocol was activated due to the attacks against him.
The security services then decided to transfer the director general to the forward command post located in Valencia.
The kings and Mazón later settled there. And since then Emergency Center of the Generalitat Valencianalocated in L’ÉlianeFelipe VI gave a short speech to thank the workers for their work and show his understanding with “anger and frustration” expressed by many people in Paiporta.
Likewise, the King also made it clear that “guarantee that the State in all its fullness is present“, thus justifying the visit to the Royal House in Valencia.
