The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazondefended the actions of his government in the management of DANA which affected the province of Valencia and stressed that the regional executive “He was aware from the beginning of the information that was given to us”.
This is what the Valencian leader said in an interview on television 13 collected by Europe Pressin which he considers that “it is completely proven” that, as “governmental bodies”, such as Aemet or the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ), transferred the updates – “some spectacular in very few minutes” – “all appropriate warnings have been sent to the population”.
Mazón again placed emphasis on the CHJ which, he pointed out, only communicated the information at 6:50 p.m., which led the autonomous administration to send out the alarm message – that the citizens received after 8:00 p.m. – before the huge event. the flow of the Poyo ravine and the risk of rupture of the Forata dam.
“There is no speculation on the weather or on the alerts,” stressed Mazón, who regretted that in addition the CHJ transferred the data via a e-mail and not by telephone or verbally, even if there is a representative of this entity in the control center. Likewise, he said that the data from those days “has been deleted.” “You cannot manage or transfer information if you do not have; It’s metaphysically impossible,” he insisted.
Likewise, he said that on Wednesday morning the Consell had already compiled this information, but “we were not in this battle of confrontation or political history.” “But the days pass and we realize that people need to know what really happenedneeds an explanation, just like pain.”
When asked if he felt responsible for anything, especially in the first hours of handling the tragedy, Mazón said: “I am the president of the Generalitat, it is possible that mistakes were made committed, but it is impossible to manage and transmit information that is not available.”
As for whether he would have liked the government to declare a state of emergency, as requested by the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the president of the Generalitat assured that “we are at the disposal of the best coordination, the most appropriate deployment.” “There would be more to do,” he stressed.
“The Government has all the information, it has the full dimension of the problem, it is all the greater because it knows perfectly all the mechanisms of the State. If the Government wanted to take a decision at the beginning or wants to take it , we will continue to work in the same way. We will do it with level 1, 2, 3 or 7, whatever it is,” he guaranteed.
“We work every day”
And he insisted that “while these policy discussions are happening, what we are doing here is working every day.” In this sense, the president assured that was “in no political calculation”because, in fact, he could have defended himself against certain criticisms which he described as “extremely unfair”. Among them, he cited the accusation of not having requested the participation of the army or that the population was informed late.
Asked how he experienced the incidents that occurred in the town of Paiporta during the visit attended by King Felipe and Queen Letizia, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and himself, Mazón said that he was “aware of the pain that exists, of an unknown rage and an unknown pain of an unknown sorrow and of an unknown frustration throughout the history of the Valencian Community.
“So I lived it with extraordinary understanding and always alongside Her Majesty, who had the enormous gesture of bravery, honor and Spanishness of being in Paiporta,” he added.
Regarding the fact that Sánchez was expelled from the premises by his bodyguards after being hit in the back with a stick, Mazón said he did not know “the exact conditions under which he had to make this decision.” He preferred not to comment on this “attitude” and declared that “at all times” he thought that His place was next to Felipe VI.
Regarding the government’s claims about the alleged participation of the ultras group in these events, the president responded: “I am not aware of it; what I was aware of was pain and anger.”
Finally, he warned that “pain cannot be a bargaining chip for any political attitude” and that, therefore, the 30 billion dollars that “at least” the The Valencian Community cannot have “any political or budgetary links”. In other words, “we need this help now, regardless of (general state) budgets.”
For its part, he continued, the Valencian Generalitat “is moving forward without bureaucracy and in a few days people will begin to receive first aid.” “We cannot make political currency out of pain, I will not allow it, it cannot have to do with a parliamentary calculation because Valencia cannot have been the great humiliation of all this,” he said. he concluded.
