Antonio Garcia Ferrerasdirector of warm redtalked about sending 5,000 army troops areas affected by DANA in Valencia. He also explained the reason why Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government, did not declare a state of alarm.
“If the Government has not declared a state of alarm This is about avoiding an institutional shock. And this was avoided, Mazón being the first to ask for the sending of soldiers even though it was the government that was putting pressure on him,” he told laSexta.
And he put Mazón at the center of everything: “Not declaring the state of alarm made everything difficult. a stunned Generalitat has slowed down the response of a ready and prepared central government”.
“Today is the first step. We must not exclude that, in the coming days, the government will tell Mazón that or ask for more help or that they will send it even if there is institutional conflict. The government has internalized the fact that not engaging in confrontation and not declaring a state of alarm carries consequences. This takeover by the President of the Government was manifested by the announcement of the sending of 5,000 soldiers,” explained Ferreras.
A military presence that he considers essential: “They are the ones who have the technical capacity, with their heavy equipment, to clear the streets and recover the communication routes. Those who have the health capacity. Those who can carry water. Those who can set up field hospitals. They have specialists, psychologists… And they have the capacity to travel in less than 24 hours. Four days have passed and they are not there because the President of the Generalitat did not ask for it, and the government, to avoid a collision with himdid not act.”
