Tellado says that Mazón’s dismissals demonstrate his “assumption of responsibilities” and demands self-criticism from Sánchez
In his interview with RNE, the PP spokesperson, Miguel Tellado, also referred to the management of the damage that devastated the province of Valencia on October 29. Regarding the management of the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, absent for much of the day of the tragedy, Tellado has stated that the changes undertaken in his Government, with the departure of three counselors, represent a “demonstration of assumption of responsibilities”, while that challenges the Government of Pedro Sánchez to make its own self-criticism.
He said that Mazón has maintained a “stance of responsibility”, that he has shown his face from the beginning, has been self-critical and “remains not to cling to his position, but to put himself at the forefront of the reconstruction.” Instead, he accuses the central government of “leaving the Valencian Executive alone.”
“I wish the Government of Spain had been capable of making the slightest self-criticism, because I have not seen anyone, absolutely no one, from the Government of Spain making self-criticism about what they did or what they did not do in the Valencia catastrophes,” has said.
He was referring especially to the third vice president of the Government and Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, on whom the State Meteorological Agency or the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation, responsible for rain warnings and river flows, depend. The PP has chosen Ribera as a target to shake off responsibility for the tragedy. In this sense, he has made it clear that his party does not regret having tried to block, without success, the appointment of Ribera as European vice president and that it will vote against her. “We believe that Teresa Ribera is a bad European commissioner, that what is not valid for Spain should not be valid for Europe,” he emphasized.
“The PP MEPs are 22 out of 188 and this is a global agreement that links popular, social democrats and liberals. What I can tell you is that the PP of Spain will not support Teresa Ribera. That is our position and we will not go down from there because we believe that their disastrous management demonstrates incompetence, intransigence, great selfishness and a lot of indolence towards the victims that this flood has left behind,” he added. (EP)
