The dismissal of Nuria Montes opens the dance of faces at the Generalitat

The departure of Nuria Montes – with a profile more linked to tourism promotion – from the Regional Executive had been known for days. His lack of empathy in his statements addressed to the victims of the tragedy, for which she had to apologize, put her in the spotlight. “Here the bodies will not be released to the families, the relatives will not be able to access the area where we are holding all the deceased, so they have to wait for the court to call and the delivery of relevant documents. The best place where families can wait for news of their loved ones is at home,” he stressed at the doors of the Feria Valencia morgue.

She was also targeted by the testimony of an official from her ministry who, after losing her husband and daughter in the floods, accused her of not having called her to offer his condolences until a week later. Nuria Montes’ team defended that they were not aware of what had happened until the day before this communication.

At the moment there have been only two significant movements within the Valencian government, after the vice president and advisor for social services, equality and housing, Susana Camarero, relieved Ruth Merino, also head of the Treasury, as spokesperson. The new obligations of Camarero, who acts as de facto representative of the Executive before the media since the start of the state of emergency, were confirmed on Sunday at 7:30 a.m., also through a press release. “This is the task that was entrusted to me and no other. “I will never say no to the president,” Camarero said yesterday to deny having refused to lead the new vice-presidency for economic and social reconstruction.

This transversal space created by Mazón will be added to that announced Department of Emergency and Home Affairs. Precisely, the head of Justice and Interior, Salomé Pradas, said goodbye to her colleagues in the Valencian Cortes on Friday, given the likelihood that she will be the next person to be fired.

In Pradas, endowed with emergency powers and president of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi), errors in the management of the disaster are attributed to him. Mazón limited himself yesterday to highlighting the “professionalism” and “capacity” of the new profiles that will make up the Consell, whom he described as “prepared people.”