The Spanish government recognized this Tuesday in the Official State Gazette that the Valencian Community experienced a “situation of National emergency“after the DANA two weeks ago, a flood which has already caused more than 200 deaths. This is what the Royal Decree Law which includes the second aid program for those affected by the devastating floods.
Until now, Pedro Sanchez refused to declare the Emergency of national interest (level three) which regulates the civil protection law and which can be activated by the Ministry of the Interior, either at the request of the autonomous community concerned, or of the delegation of the government of the area. So far it has remained at level two in which the Valencian generality led by the popular Carlos Mazon He is the one who takes on the maximum responsibility.
PP sources remember that Alberto Nuñez Feijóo already demanded that Sánchez decree the national emergency, and therefore it is not understood that now the BOÉ “explicitly assume the national emergency that Sánchez refuses to promote in our country.”
“It is incomprehensible that it was not decreed from the beginning to manage this unprecedented disaster with all the resources of the State and to respond to all the needs of the victims,” the PP said in a statement.
“DAO Shield”
From the PP, they also denounce that the Government is taking advantage of DANA’s aid decree to “jump the armor of the Marlaska Police Chief”. Sánchez’s executive justified that the deputy operational director (DAO) of the National Police, Chief Commissioner José Ángel González, remains in office thanks to a legal modification that cancels his next retirement at the age of 65. situation” caused by DANA.
“In this National Emergency situation, it would be highly dysfunctional to replace the person at the head of the Deputy Operational Directorate, who directs and coordinates the operational functions of the National Police personnel on the ground,” says the government in the royal decree-law published in the BOE.
In this way, the Ministry of the Interior finally chose to include a final provision with the legal amendment so that the DAO of the Police continues to exercise its functions, as is already the case in the case of the DAO of the Civil Guard.
“Losing your autonomy”
Why isn’t the central government activating the national emergency? According to Moncloa’s argument, in all meetings of Civil defense Communities argued that it was up to them to take charge. The Ministry of the Interior, on its own initiative or at the request of the autonomous communities, may declare an emergency of national interest in accordance with article 28 of the Law of the National Civil Protection System.
“The question was debated within the National Civil Protection Commission, but neither the presidents of the Valencian Communitynor that of Murcia, Andalusia neither one nor the other Castile-La Mancha;They called on the government to declare a national emergency. This would mean losing their autonomy.since the State would assume control of the situation,” assures the government.
The Executive also claims that Mazón himself never requested to reach level three.
Sources of Valencian generality counter-argue the position of Moncloa and they assure this newspaper that “you cannot fall into the trap” that it is Mazón “who must ask for help so that the State” intervenes. “At all.”
These same sources recall the standard included in the State operational organization guide for an immediate response to Civil Protection emergenciesl, prepared by the Ministry of the Interior. “It is necessary to provide external resources from the State to the Autonomous Community, to support the tasks of the action groups in the emergency area,” he added. can we read in the aforementioned document.
PP sources add: “In other words, the Generalitat Valenciana can and must request resources and means from the State, but the State must also make more means and more resources available to the Generalitat without she needs to ask for them, because the State is obliged to do it according to ministry standards.
