Nearly 40 social, civic organizations and unions from the Valencian Community have called or have joined the demonstration planned this Saturday, at six in the afternoon from the Valencia City Hall square, in protest of and with the motto “Mazón resignation “, in reference to the PP. The organizers have insisted on rejecting any violent expression and have asked the protesters to carry out the entire march in silence, out of respect for the victims. Other similar marches are also planned at the same time in Alicante and Elche. The flood on October 29 has so far resulted in 215 deaths in the province of Valencia alone, and has affected some 80 municipalities in the autonomous community.
The Valencia demonstration will start from the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and will run along Calle de San Vicente, Plaza de la Reina, Calle del Micalet and Plaza de la Virgen, until ending in front of the Palau de la Generalitat, in Plaza Manises, as reported. the Delegation of the Government of the Valencian Community. In Alicante, the march will start from the IES Jorge Juan in the direction of the Valencian Government delegation, and in Elche it will be a rally in the Plaza de Baix. And in Madrid, the La Plaza Madrid platform, close to Mas Madrid, has informed the Government Delegation of another protest at 6:00 p.m. this Saturday at Puerta del Sol, where the resignation of the president of the Generalitat Valenciana will also be requested.
Among the organizations convening and joining the march in the Valencian capital are Arran-SEPC-COS-Endavant, BEA, Ca Revolta, CNT Valencia, City-Port Commission, Coordinating Associations Associations Democràtica País Valencian, Decidim – Platform for the right to decide of the Valencian Country, , FAMPA Valencia, Intersindical Valenciana, Lambda and the El Micalet Choral Society, among others. Political parties such as Compromís, Esquerra Unida or Podemos have encouraged to join the protest.
The co-spokesperson of the organizing commission Anna Oliver, president of Acció Cultural del País Valencià, explained this Friday that the march is called “to demand responsibilities, truthful information, means for the victims and to denounce the ignominy of the Government [valenciano]which he did not warn and that has caused, with that lack of foresight, fatalities.” Also “to raise their voices for those who cannot come, because a week later no means have been put in place to recover their homes.”
The organizing entities insist on respect for the victims: “We ask that it be a silent march, that does not give room or space to those who are going to cause riots, to provoke the masses to convey a message of violence.”
Protest of the workers’ front against Mazón and Sánchez
In addition to this march, another rally is planned this Saturday at noon in Plaza San Lorenzo, next to the Valencian Cortes, called by the political organization of the Workers’ Front and in which the Valencian president and the central government will be held accountable. Pedro Sánchez. A third protest will leave the Benimaclet neighborhood of Valencia, also today, at 4:30 p.m., and will join the one at six in the afternoon at the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
Last Thursday, two rallies took place in Castellón and Barcelona, where participants demanded responsibilities for the management of the dana, Europa Press reports. In the Catalan capital, about 1,000 people gathered against Mazón in front of the PP headquarters. The protesters, summoned by entities and parties of the pro-independence left, threw mud at the door of the building. The banner at the header read “Mazón criminal” and, among other slogans, shouts were heard against the Valencian president such as: “Mazón resignation”, or “Mazón to prison”.
