The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazónhas requested to stop the “lies and hoaxes” about his performance. on the afternoon of October 29, the day of the arrival of the DANA, in which he has insisted that he was not incommunicado and has stated that the government “is falling into one contradiction after another“through “its entities”. In addition, he has advanced that “shortly” it will be changes in the Consell will be announced shortly. to “make the best government prepared and adequate for the recovery” after the storm.
Mazón, who has made these statements before attending the meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi) in the Coordination Center of Emergencies of L’Eliana, has wondered why, if the Government had information through the Aemet that the Forata dam could be broken “did not take command” of emergencies..
Once in the Cecopi he commented that they are “working” on changes in the Consell, which will include a new “vice-presidency for economic and social recovery” and a Department of Emergencies and Interior. In addition, he took the opportunity to emphasize that does not intend to “skimp, claim and demand”. from the Government “all that is deserved” by his “land and the Valencians”. “At all times, in every race, every rehabilitation, every aid,” he stressed.
Also, has criticized that “now it turns out that part of the aid (of the Government). are to be returned“. “In other words, they are going to give us aid so that we return it. Is this another strategy? All of this when he recalled that the Generalitat calculated that the Government must contribute 31,000 million euros for the recovery. “And they barely put us a third -he has reproached-. We are not going to stop demanding absolutely nothing so that the rate is the one that the people deserve”.
The Government and the Aemet
Before his arrival at the Integrated Operational Coordination Center, Mazón wanted to share data on the day of the tragedy. “If it is true that the Government through Aemet thought or had information that (the rupture of) the dam was imminent at that time at 5:30 p.m., why didn’t he take command, why didn’t he take command?why didn’t he force that ES-Alert to be sent?Why, if it was in Cecopi?” he questioned. In his words, this is “materially impossible until two hours later when the certain possibility of a bursting or overtopping of the dam with the risk of the lives of 80,000 people” arrived.
“Do you mean to tell me that the Government at 17.30 already knew that 80,000 lives of Valencians could be at risk and does not take command because supposedly here in the Cecopi, in a body where the Government itself is part, are capsizing or are not knowing how to make decisions.?”, he insisted.
Mazón has stated that the one who has to respond to this is the central government which, he has said, is falling “in one contradiction after another through its entities.” “Enough of deceiving the peoplebecause what has happened is too serious to be changing the story with the EMU yes or no with the UME, or if the president was incommunicado,” he added.
The accusation that Mazón was incommunicado for five hours on the day the floods took place is a “lie” and is “one of the biggest hoaxes of all this time”, he said, insisting that spoke with the mayor of Cullera at 6:28 p.m. to ask him how the situation was and he told him that it was raining and that no major problems were expected, and with “others”.
“I was not incommunicado at any time.”
The president of the Generalitat has pointed out that an effort is being made for the recovery and, with “everything that is happening, with this tremendous pain”, it is “exhausting to be denying lies”. and hoaxes permanently”. One of them and the most important, he said, is the one that points to the fact that he was incommunicado for five hours: “I was not incommunicado at any time. The Cecopi was constituted at 17.00 hours, and at 17.30 I was already receiving calls and answering calls from the councilor, the president of the Provincial Council…”.
The only communication problems, he pointed out, occurred when arriving at the Cecopi meeting because the telephone lines were down. He also argued that he kept his plan for the day because “everyone was prepared” and a body of which he, he reiterated, was not a member, was validly constituted.
Another of the hoaxes, according to Mazón, refers to his attendance at that meeting, since at that time it was already “validly constituted by all its members”, and he is not part of that body and “nobody was waiting for the president of the Generalitat to make decisions”.“He said that they were being taken according to the information that was arriving, including the preparation and sending of the Es-Alert message, “depending on the obvious risk that the Forata dam would overflow or break”. He reiterated that it would be impossible to wait for him to make technical decisions, because “there would be no capacity to react at all”.
He has also quoted the UME to say that it is able “to say at the same time that without the authorization of the Generalitat it could not be activated, it could not do anything And, at the same time, a few days later, he says that before the authorization of the Generalitat he was already operating, he was already working. What was that all about?”.
Mazón has accused the general secretary of the PSPV-PSOE and Minister of Science of contradicting herself, Diana Morantto point out: “He goes from saying that he is going to support the budget to asking for my resignation.“. In addition, he wonders if the situation of the vice-president and minister of Ecological Transition is not the same as that of the vice-president and minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Riberahas changed and now “everything is an argument and a political calculation to try to reverse the situation of Teresa Ribera or the Ministry”.