Alberto Núñez Feijóo has lived the consequences of the generalized blackout in Valencia. The PP leader had traveled Monday to the capital of Turia, convened for this Tuesday and Wednesday, which at the moment continues. The head of the opposition has appeared before the media around 16.50, when the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, had not yet addressed the nation. Computed, Feijóo has complained about lack of “information” towards citizens and has asked the central executive. “It is very important that the Government’s electric blackout does not join,” the night has already been reiterated in a video distributed to the press, although he has shown his support for the Moncloa. “The government knows that the Spaniards have at their disposal to the PP from all their national, autonomous and local responsibilities,” he emphasized. And he has shown his “solidarity” with citizens, especially towards those who are suffering “very distressing situations.”
In parallel, Interior has granted five autonomous communities-Andalusia, Extremadura, Madrid, Murcia and La Rioja-the declaration of “national emergency” and two others-Galicia and Castilla-La Mancha-have also requested it. to the regional presidents Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Juan Manuel Moreno and María Guardiola, all of the Popular Party, who had formally requested them at that time. The president of Murcia also tweeted that he requested that this national emergency in his territory be activated.
“The concern is growing and misinformation is accumulating. I do not think it is reasonable that in a country like ours, three hours later we do not have detailed information,” Feijóo said before the appearance of Sánchez. “We have tried to contact the Government from the one and peak of the afternoon and we need to know. Without calling social tension, we do call responsibility. The government has to be responsible for an absence of unprecedented information,” added the leader of the PP. “All the resources of the State must mobilize to avoid undesirable situations and that citizens feel all the support of their government at a time of as much uncertainty as this,” he added at night, after meeting with other members of the PP’s leadership in Valencia, among which his spokesperson was in Congress, Miguel Tellado.
The interlocution with the political formations has been carried out by the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños. Around 19.30, Bolaños has assured through the social network X that he was “talking to the spokesmen of the parliamentary groups to share the information” available to Moncloa.
Feijóo has canceled his entire official agenda for the afternoon of this Monday in Valencia. The PP leader had a meeting with participants from the Congress of the European Popular Party and a dinner with the parliamentarians of all Member States. In a note sent the media, Genoa has communicated on the other hand that the head of the opposition “will intensify the contacts with mayors and spokesmen to precisely know the level of incidence of this serious situation” and “in the different cameras of representation.” European PP sources indicate Congress for now will be held. “Nothing indicates otherwise,” they report.
The first reaction of the Popular Party, minutes after the blackout, was confrontation against the government. “We have no information, but the European Network of Electric Operators already said that Spain was the country with the greatest risk of blackout. We have enough information about the causes, but they lead us to the reflection that the Government, instead of solving the problems, is dedicated to protecting itself from corruption,” said Paloma Martín, vice -secretary of sustainable development of the Popular Party, from the Almaraz nuclear power plant, where he had come together with the vice -secretary of Economics, Juan Bravo, to emphasize his message against the closure of the nuclear.
Interior declares the emergency of national interest in five communities
That of the different communities, which have activated special plans to address the crisis, in collaboration with the central administration. Before the appearance of the Chief of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, several leaders such as the President of the Board, Juan Manuel Moreno, that of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and that of Extremadura, María Guardiola, had asked the Moncloa to declare the state of national emergency. Sanchez has subsequently responded that the emergency declaration is granted to the three communities that have requested it and the same will be done with other territories that join the petition. In the early night, Interior has reported that the application had come from a total of five communities: Andalusia, Extremadura, Murcia, La Rioja and Madrid. Two others, Galicia and Castilla-La Mancha, have also requested it.
“We have asked the Government of Spain for the declaration of level 3 for emergency of national interest and the activation of the army to collaborate in this crisis,” said Díaz Ayuso through the social network X. “A national emergency, such as the one we are experiencing, requires coordination of the State. Therefore, from the Autonomous Community of Extremadura, we request the Government of Spain to activate the emergency plan 3. Guardiola, also through X. In the case of the Junta de Andalucía, they have not requested army performance, but have joined the national emergency request.
The Spanish Civil Protection System provides three emergency levels. Level 3 is the one planned for the so -called “national interest” emergencies. They are those that require the application of the regulatory law of the states of alarm, exception and site -. But it can also be applied “when it is necessary to provide for the coordination of diverse administrations because they affect several autonomous communities and demand a contribution of resources at the supra -autonomic level.”
In the Canary Islands, which have dodged the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula, the Regional Government has declared at 15.15 the alert situation to guarantee the monitoring of the possible affectations to the basic supplies. The Executive applies in this way the Civil Protection Territorial Plan of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands (Platca), reports Guillermo Vega.
The islands have six different electrical systems of small size. Each is not only isolated from the Peninsula, but also among them (except for Lanzarote and Fuerteventura and Tenerife and La Gomera, which are connected).
Popular barons such as the president of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, or that of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, have appeared before the media to send messages of “tranquility” to the population. “We have constituted the crisis cabinet on the occasion of the electric blackout,” said López Miras, whose government has activated the emergency plan at level 1, which implies that “all emergency services in the Region of Murcia are already activated emergency disposal.” The Regional Executive is “in contact with all municipalities” so that they require these services. “The priority is to guarantee the electricity supply to the health centers of the Region of Murcia and we also have prepared if the fuel supply is necessary for those centers. 112 has received 900 calls and has been reinforced with more means. López Miras asks to avoid unnecessary displacements.
“From Red Eléctrica they tell us that the blackout will still last a few hours,” said the president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón on the edge of the three in the afternoon. “The priority goes through the safety of all people and the most important thing is that we reduce the activity, that people stay at home and use the least that telephony can, which consume the least possible energy.” The popular leader has pointed out that the main problems that the Emergency Service 112 has attended has to do with people trapped with elevators, but not greater problems. “We are mobilizing all local police templates, firefighters and the main municipalities of the Autonomous Community,” he announced.
Socialist leaders such as the Asturian president, Adrián Barbón, has also sent through the social network X a message asking citizens to keep “calm” next to an image of the crisis committee that has been established by the government of the Principality.
