Mistakes in the management of the DANA crisis in Valencia have a clear culprit for Add: the Government of the Generalitat Valenciana, led by Carlos Mazón. But the central Executive, of which Sumar itself forms part, also bears a share of the responsibility for having “put itself in profile”. and not having relieved the president to take charge of the management of the tragedy by declaring a state of alarm, considers the coalition that he leads Yolanda Diazwho defended it in Congress through the mouth of her deputy spokesperson, Águeda Micó.
Micó is a deputy of Compromísbut this Wednesday he spoke on behalf of the entire Sumar group in the plenary session of the Lower House before which the Minister of Territorial Policy intervened, Ángel Víctor Torresto give an account of the actions of the central government during the crisis. The parliamentarian dedicated almost her entire speech to a very forceful attack on the autonomous government of Mazón, of which she went so far as to say that “he is up to his neck in shit”. and who he accused of having caused the loss of many lives due to his “irresponsibility” in the management of the disaster.
“I do not know if Mazón will sleep at night, but there are many people who cannot sleep at night because of the management of his government, which is a humiliation to the victims of the DANA”, said Micó, who assured that the Valencian citizenship does not deserve an autonomous executive “that has given five different versions about where the president the day our country was bursting and our people were drowning in their homes, cars and streets.” “Mazón has to resign and start preparing his judicial defense.” demanded the deputy of Compromís and Sumar, who also criticized that the PP at the national level maintains its support to the president Valencian “not because he believes he is capable of managing the emergency”, but “in order not to give a triumph to the left”.
For Micó, however, the central government -in which Sumar occupies five ministries and a vice-presidency- has not acted with due diligence either. Not in the mismanagement of the crisis, which the deputy blamed entirely on the Generalitat Valenciana, but precisely in its reluctance to remove the “lying and negligent” Mazón the command to assume it in the first person. “Minister Torres, why have you taken a bit of a back seat when you saw that a kamikaze was managing this tragedy?” asked Micó, who criticized that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, did not take “a step forward the day after this tragedy, in view of Mazón’s incompetence.”
“Nor do we understand why the PSPV [la marca del PSOE en la Comunidad Valenciana] Sánchez by perpetuating Mazón”, nor that the central government is seeking to save the “wanted to keep an incompetent just to say that Sánchez is better than Mazón”.The deputy spokeswoman of Sumar said. “We already know that, so we want the central government to take the reins of reconstruction, not the incompetent Mazón. The people save the people, but what really saves the people are competent governments,” ended Micó.
The partners charge against the PP
The usual parliamentary partners of the central Executive were much less harsh with Sánchez than Sumar was, with the exception of Podemoswhose general secretary, Ione Belarragave a speech highly critical of the fact that the Government has not withdrawn Mazón’s powers to manage the crisis. “It must be said clearly: the Government of Mazón, of the PP, of Feijóo, has not only made an irresponsible management of this tragedy, has made a directly homicidal management”.because “many of the deaths were avoidable” and the Popular Party “are responsible”, said Belarra, who nevertheless accused the Moncloa of not having declared a state of alarm due to “partisan logic”.
“Mr. Minister, I do not know why you decided not to declare the alarm, but you are going to have to explain it very well. You are the Government of Spain and it is your obligation, your responsibility, to protect the citizens wherever they live”, denounced the leader of Podemos, who demanded that the central Executive do “something useful” and approve “a real social shield and not aid clearly insufficient that they have approved”. “How is it possible that mortgages and rents have not been forgiven or that the prices of basic necessities have not been regulated?” wondered Belarra.
The rest of the Government’s partners were not so critical of the central Government, although they were critical of that of the Generalitat Valenciana. “The DANA is a natural catastrophe, but when you change firemen for bullfighters and when the president of your community distributes a TV in the reserved area of a restaurant, that is called criminal negligence”.said the ERC spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufianwho accused the PP of lying about the tragedy to avoid taking responsibility. “And the problem is not that they lie, it is that those lies have long since cost lives,” lamented Rufián.
His PNV counterpart, Aitor Estebanmaintained a much more restrained tone, assuring that, “while there is mud in the streets, looking for guilty parties and pointing fingers at each other does not help the people”. But he also expressed his surprise at the fact that “the PP, even being as it is responsible for the most direct authority on the ground”, is following the strategy that “the PP, even being as it is responsible for the most direct authority on the ground”, is following the strategy that “the best defense is to accuse others and evade any responsibility of its own.”. “When responsibilities are elucidated, some of today’s words could sound extravagant,” Esteban slipped, looking at the popular bench.