A week has passed since the most serious tragedy in the history of our country took away part of the province of Valencia leaving more than two hundred dead and many missing. A period of seven days during which the arrival of food and drinking water determining precise points of devastation is still complicated. Meanwhile the political confrontation This is a reality that the main parties are trying to minimize.
It is true that during these days security in the most affected areas has been strengthened, as well as Presence of the army. However, this did not ease political tension following criticism of the delays in the arrival of help. The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, blame the government and even the UME, while its party leader, the “popular” Alberto Núñez Feijóo, asks in a veiled way that remove your comrades from command.
The president of the Popular Party (PP) has been asking for days that the executive of Pedro Sánchez declare a national emergencywhich would imply that the management of the emergency is held by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska. Maximum responsibility which corresponds so far to the regional leader, i.e. Carlos Mazon.
This is a political confrontation that the national leaders of the PP and PSOE have been trying to reduce since the beginning of the mandate. floods destroy lives all last week. Some attempts which also fail to reduce the tension and indignation of the city. The proof is altercations experienced in Paiporta this Sunday when Kings visited the city with President Mazón and President Sánchez. The latter had to be evacuated after being hit by a stick.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Spanish citizens observe with astonishment what can already be considered a national pseudoparalysis. The questions then repeat themselves: What’s wrong? Why didn’t we react in time? Why didn’t we react appropriately? Important questions to resolve and for which it is now important that all Valencians can return to life as quickly as possible, that they have clean water to eat and drink.
A precarious situation in which many neighbors find themselves, but also volunteers who go to the site to empty the water and clean the mud which floods practically everything. Considering this, the health risk and disease transmission may increase, so it is necessary to follow a series of recommendations How to prevent people with health problems, children or pregnant women from participating in these tasks.
It is also important to protect the body with long clothing and appropriate footwear, such as good hygiene, for example using hydroalcoholic gel. Likewise, they recommend under no circumstances touching the corpses that might be found, whether human or animal.
Valencia classes are full again, but not all
However, amid so much unpleasant news, this Tuesday, glimmers of hope are beginning to appear after the resumption of classes at all levels of education. Of course, not everyone will resume the school year since in 24 municipalities – the most affected – the wait will continue. Yes, the students of the Valencian capital and its neighborhoods will do it, except those of La Torre, Forn d’Alcedo and Castelar.
A hope that was also reflected on the blackboards of the Paiporta schools by a couple of police officers from Córdoba who collected “El Diario de Córdoba”. Chari and David left a message for students who one day they will return to these classrooms in which they slept. “By the way, we love your drawings,” they complete their message.
Measures for those affected
Early this Tuesday, the Council of Ministers met to decree catastrophic zoneas well as a set of urgent measures, very similar to that deployed after the eruption of La Palma Volcano. La Moncloa defines it as “a real social and economic shield” which includes direct aid, the deferral of the second payment of income tax or the protection of workers through ERTES. This Monday, Mazón has already requested 31.402 million euros for those affected.
While waiting for the President of the Government to appear and announce these measures, we know that for the moment Activation of the civil protection mechanism was not requested of the European Commission. European Union (EU) sources assure that it is now possible to request it.
Likewise, on the morning of this Tuesday, the president of the Congress of Deputies, Francina Armengol, summoned the Council to approve the sending of 15 million euros through its budgetary remainder and an additional 15 million euros through the budget of the Cortes Générales for direct aid to people affected by the effects of DANA.
