The Government of Salvador Illa has defended on Tuesday before the criticisms of the opposition in the Parliament, which have accused him in block, including his ERC and Comuns partners, of not providing enough information and doing it late. The president, who will appear in the Chamber on Tuesday to explain what happened, has argued that the Executive’s response has been, he said, “up to it, has been decent and correct.” “The Government has been at the foot of the canyon. We have left seven times: four on Monday and three today,” he said in an appearance at the Palau de la Generalitat. The Executive has opened two informative files to Spanish Electricity (REE) and Endesa to find out the causes of the blackout.
However, Illa has admitted that in any circumstance there are always “lessons” that can be extracted and that will analyze whether they can improve response services. “But we react and hope that everyone will make constructive contributions,” he said regarding opposition complaints, pointing out that the priority of the Government was to protect people, goods and guarantee the functioning of critical infrastructure (69 of 71 of 71 responded with autonomy). The Executive activated the Civil Protection Plan -even an asset -, the PLASEQTA (chemical security) and the Penta (Nuclear). Illa has assured that the service is 100% restored and that the only affectation is that of Rodalies that predicts that on Tuesday it will work normally.
The deputy spokesman of Junts Per Catalunya, Josep Rius, has loaded against the fact that the first appearance of the president It was eight hours after the start of the generalized incidence. From the ranks of Esquerra, the number two of the bench, Ester Capella, has lamented that the Government acted “on tow” of the Moncloa. The Executive spokeswoman has assured that the delay in appearing is justified by wanting to have “contrasted” information to offer citizens.
“The president The Generalitat was hidden and did not report up to eight hours later and, when it came out, the information was useless. It even advanced normal that could not be done, ”said Rius at a press conference. The president of the second training in the Parliament, Carles Puigdemont, had already pointed out Monday against the informative management yesterday. In a message on the social network X, he regretted that Illa did not leave during the first hours of the day to“ transmit serenity in ”.
Capella, meanwhile, has also lamented at a press conference that he will choose to “go to tow of what Moncloa says”, instead of having a strategy of own citizen information. “The electric blackout did not have to imply an informative blackout,” he added, thus including practices such as the limit to the number of questions of journalists.
Jéssica Albiach, the leader of Commons, has described as “improvable” the management of the communication of an emergency that, he recalled, still still does not solve herself. “Although all the information was not had, a message of calm to all citizens would have been launched,” he added. Albiach has also ironic that, unlike what happened in the Dana de Valencia, the Catalans do know where all their ministers and counselors were. A dart to the PP and the hours when President Carlos Mazón was absent. “You cannot manage a crisis from institutional silence,” he said, in a statement, the popular spokesman in the Catalan Chamber, Juan Fernández.
After the celebration of the Consell Executiu, the spokesman, Sílvia Paneque, has argued that the Government acted according to the protocols of the emergency services and that it activated the necessary mechanisms to face an unpublished and exceptional situation. “We did the first appearance at 4:00 p.m. when we had reliable and contrastable information,” said the counselor, who also pointed out that the Government did not believe it necessary to claim the government to activate the emergency phase because there was no danger to people or for critical infrastructure.
