Two of the highest institutional positions of the European Union, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, will receive the representatives of three associations of victims of the DANA on Tuesday that caused 228 dead on October 29 in the province of Valencia. The two policies, which are part of the Popular Party, will meet the demands of the association of victims of the Dana Horta Sud-Valencia, the Association of Vítimes de la Dana 29 d’Ecupo, and the Association fatal victims Dana 29-0. None of them have been received by the President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, of the PP, or by the president of Les Cortes Valencianes, Llanos Massó, of Vox.
Both formations on the right agreed a work plan for the DANA Research Commission in the Valencian Parliament in which they excluded the voice of the victims, among the more than 80 approved appearances of politicians, technicians and experts. They refused the presence not only of the three associations indicated but also of the rest. Mazón has only officially met with the Entity SOS missing (last March 27), and with some relatives of personal deceased in the Palau de la Generalitat. The president of SOS disappeared, Joaquín Amills, transferred to the Chief of the Consell “all the pain of families, the desire to assume what happened and apologize”, as well as his resignation and voluntary statement before the judge of Catarroja, who investigates the management of the Dana.
The parliamentary spokesman in Les Corts, José María Llanos, justified the absence of the associations of victims of the Dana because they are entities formed not by “true affected” but by “true interested parties” and are “controlled” by political parties. As indicated, these are “people, some in good faith, manipulated by political parties that what they want is to bring the movement of the street to political activity.”
His words generated a strong rejection and indignation among the affected associations, some of which announced that they study possible judicial measures against Llanos. The PP spokesman, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, said that the victims “deserve all the respect of the world” and that “if any wants”, may be in the investigation commission, although they were not summoned by their own party in the work plan. The opposition called “bad people” and “lack of humanity” to the Vox representative.
A few days before the start of the Congress of the European Popular Party in Valencia, which was held between May 29 and 30, the Ursula Von der Leyen team responded to the letter of the associations that had been addressed to it that the requested meeting would take place in Brussels on May 13 and not during the conclave in the city also affected by the floods, as in the beginning he had requested. Mazón was seen in Congress the last day, without participating in the photo of the final group.
Association representatives also plan to meet on Tuesday with various European Parliament, located in Strasbourg. The first attempt to hear his voice in this institution Europe was through the request for requests, but the right rejected it a few months ago.
