On the tenth day since the tragic floods caused by the DANA, the PP points to a new culprit in the management of the disaster that has left, for the moment, two hundred dead and countless missing in addition to the material losses especially in the Valencian Community. The opposition is not only accusing the President of the Government, Pedro SánchezThe Spanish government has not only accused Pedro Sánchez of acting “in bad faith” for not declaring the national emergency and, consequently, taking control of the situation from the beginning, but is now pointing the finger at the third vice-president and minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Riberaas “maximum responsible” for the delay in alerts to the population.
The popular parliamentary spokesman, Miguel Telladohas echoed an information published by ABC that says that National Security warned Moncloa twelve hours before the DANA of “very strong storms”. The spokesman calls this information “tremendously serious” and demands to know “why Sanchez did not act with this information that National Security sent to Moncloa”. At this point, he has reproached him that next week he is absent from the plenary session of Congress, to which, in his opinion, he should go to give explanations. Or, at least, he asks the third vice president to do so, who “more than a week later still do not know where she is”.
Even more so being responsible for the Hydrographic Confederation of the Jucar, that “did not alert until around 19.00 hours”. of the floods or of the works planned for that hydrological basin, in the Magro river and in the Poyo ravine. “He owes us all an explanation and where he has to do it is in Congress,” has demanded the parliamentary spokesman, who also regrets the “strategy of permanent escape in which Sánchez and his top leaders are”. “I fear that Ribera is more focused on her personal and political ambitions than on management,” he said in allusion to the upcoming incorporation of the minister to the new European Commission.
Likewise, he has taken the middle road when he was asked about the new information that revealed that the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, arrived two hours late to the crisis committee last Tuesday, the day of the floods. Tellado has tried to extinguish the fire alleging that the president of the Generalitat was “perfectly informed”. and who has to give explanations is Ribera. “In that committee were present members of the Government of the Generalitat that kept the president Mazón informed, perfectly informed and communicated with the crisis committee. What we have to explain from the Hydrographic Confederation is why it was not warned until shortly before 19.00 hours. The Generalitat transmitted the information sent by the AEMET, and therefore, it would be good that just as Mazón will appear in the Cortes, so will the president in Congress or the responsible for this whole issue: the Minister Ribera,” he said.
And once again, he has defended the management of the popular baron. On the one hand, he says he sees him “every day on the ground, fulfilling his duties” and on the other, he reiterates the need for the Government to take control of the situation. “If this is not a national emergency, what is? The Government could have declared a national emergency, got involved from the first moment and did not do so. It is not that the Government has acted badly, but that it has acted in bad faith”. He also accused the President of the Government of “abandoning his responsibilities by saying that if they need help, they should ask for it”.