This Wednesday, the Popular Party continued its total war against the third vice-president and Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, in a new attempt to make her co-responsible for the management of DANA in Valencia. Something that made Ribera explode during the control session at the Congress of Deputies, where he blamed the “populars” for being those who published a report according to which She signed on as Secretary of State on Poyo Ravine in 2011.
In a new angry session, where the vice president was barely able to speak because of the shouts from the PP bench, Ribera responded to two questions from the PP on the balance he maintains in his management at the head of his Departmentand on the measures that your ministry took to prevent the disaster caused due to floods which caused the death of more than 200 people.
It was Miguel Tellado, spokesperson for the PP in the Lower House, who launched severe criticism against the vice-president, accusing her of “selfish, incompetent and intransigent. » “He did not have time to set foot in Valencia and this will accompany him for the rest of his political life. He has been incompetent, intransigent and extremely selfish,” Tellado said.
To this, the minister responded bluntly, explaining that she He doesn’t go to Valencia to “take photos” and he works “with rigor, seriousness and transparency.” “There have been more than 130 explanations and actions from the ministry that tell the story of what happened. And today I will go into detail. From day one, I have worked in my office to resolve the needs and emergencies, the same way I was with AEMET and the Hydrographic Confederation in the exercise of their duties,” Ribera said.
Tellado then criticized the vice president for saying that “if she had not canceled the project to channel and drain the Poyo Ravine in 2021, many lives would have been saved.” “But he canceled it and canceled it because of his political intransigence. He did not allow the riverbeds to be cleaned and he did it out of ideology,” the spokesperson said. However, Ribera recalled that “the closest they have been to resolving the works of the Barranco del Poyo“It was in 2011.
That year, she explained very upset that she “As Secretary of State, she signed the only environmental impact statement (DIA) in favor of these interventions in December 2011.“.”you gave up. The DIA expired in 2017 due to the inaction of the government of Mr. Mariano Rajoy and since the first day of 2018 we recover emergency works“, said the minister. Subsequently, the PP bench forced the minister to continue speaking because of her cries, including the Congress president demanding that she be allowed to speak and not reprimanded .
In the EIA presented by Ribera, it is stated that “the purpose of the project is to carry out a series of actions aimed at the environmental adaptation of the Poyo basin, whose aim is to reduce the risk of flooding in the towns of Valencia located in the area of the Pozalet, Saleta and Poyo ravines, reaching the level of protection necessary for a return period of 500 years”.
It also aimed, according to the text, to protect “the Albufera Natural Park against the processes of clogging and loss of quality of ecosystems, in addition to ecologically restoring the river environment of the action area”. Furthermore, what is striking is that the requested action would be carried out in “11 municipalities located within the perimeter of the Poyo ravine basin”.
“These are Alaquás, Aldaia, Buñol, Chiva, Loriguilla, Paiporta, Picanya, Quart de Poblet, Ribarroja del Turia, Torrent and Xirivella, all belonging to the province of Valencia, Comunitat Valenciana”, he underlined. These are the villages which suffered the most from the ravages of DANA which struck the area on October 29, leaving more than 200 dead, in the worst cold fall of the year. century in the Community.
