The vice president of the Valencian Government, (PP), this Sunday ruled out resignations in the regional Executive due to the management of the damage that devastated part of the province of Valencia on October 29, with a provisional balance of more than 200 deaths and 80 municipalities affected. After calling for the resignation of the regional president, Carlos Mazón, on Saturday, Camarero has shown his “respect” for that protest but has stated: “No resignation is an option at this time.” The vice president has insisted that now the Valencian Executive has to focus on reconstruction: “We cannot waste a single minute.” He has criticized the central government, which he has asked for more investment to mitigate the effects of the catastrophe: “We need a Spanish Government that does not give us money in dribs and drabs and does not spare a euro for those affected,” he said. The central Executive, for its part, has limited itself to saying that they are also now focused on recovery tasks and that the debate on demanding responsibilities will take place “at the appropriate time.”
Camarero has avoided self-criticism regarding the management of what happened on the day of the flood and has referred to the appearance that the Valencian president will make next Thursday in the Valencian Cortes, in which he will give, he has assured, all the explanations. “I think it will be the moment in which any type of doubt that has arisen these days will be clarified,” indicated the vice president. She has only recognized that a natural catastrophe like the one we are experiencing these days, “which has not been known in the history of either this community or this country, obviously has to leave behind many experiences and learnings.”
Of the demonstration that tens of thousands of people attended this Saturday in Valencia – 130,000, according to the calculations of the Government Delegation – to demand the immediate resignation of Mazón and his Government for not having known how to manage the catastrophe, the number two The Valencian Executive has assured to understand “the pain, suffering, frustration and helplessness” of the affected people who demonstrated “peacefully.”
“We must respect, it cannot be any other way, the people who yesterday [por el sábado] They took to the streets to show that pain. We make that pain ours,” he stressed. However, Camarero has regretted that this suffering is “politicized,” as in his opinion certain protesters did. Furthermore, he has shown his rejection of the “violent groups” who, at the end of the “legitimate and peaceful” march, caused “riots and acts of vandalism,” which “distort the object and message” of the protest.
When asked by journalists about contacts between the day of the tragedy, the vice president insisted that there was a “specific” drop in telephone coverage, due to the damage itself, which was recovered in a few hours. And he added that, in any case, Ribera “manipulated” when he stated on SER that he had been calling Mazón, without success, between 7:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. “She was in Brussels making corridors, instead of worrying about Valencia. There is a missed call at 8:17 p.m. and a message at 8:20 p.m., when everything had already happened,” he emphasized.
Shorten the time to recovery
The Government of Pedro Sánchez, on the other hand, has remained faithful this Sunday to its slogan throughout the week of publicly avoiding confrontation with the Valencian Generalitat and conveying the idea that the ministries are deploying all their power in the affected areas. to dissolve criticism about the alleged insufficient response of the State. The Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, who appeared after the daily meeting of the crisis committee, has presented a barrage of data and made some commitments: bypass on the N-330 it will be operational on Monday, the A-7 will open on Monday and the Madrid-Valencia AVE will operate on Thursday.
Torres, who this afternoon is traveling to Valencia to join Cecopi, has claimed the task carried out by 8,500 soldiers and 10,000 national police and civil guards with more than 3,843 operational means, such as helicopters, ambulances or drones. The delivery of water, he explained, is already close to 180,000 liters, and that of food exceeds 36,000 kilos.
“It is a job 24 hours a day in four shifts, seven days a week,” stressed the minister, who has even spoken of a “feat” in shortening the deadlines towards the recovery of a “normality” that will still take time. in arriving. Torres has confirmed that new announcements will be added to the aid approved last week by decree after a Council of Ministers tomorrow, Monday. Currently, more than 100 officials are being trained to travel to the affected area and work on the aid procedures.
Regarding the demonstration on Saturday in Valencia, the person in charge of Territorial Policy has shown his respect and has pointed out: “In the face of debates that will surely take place at the right time, today it would be an absolute mistake not to focus on recovering the streets of all the municipalities, in to remove the mud, to respond to the health situation, to replace the electricity in all homes, where they have gas, because cold days are coming, to anticipate atmospheric situations and for aid to arrive as soon as possible.”
