The Popular Party has raised the political tension on fire management charging against the general director of Civil Protection and Emergencies, Virginia Barcones, for her statements on Wednesday in which and to create “artificial controversies so as not to have to talk about her own management.” The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, has described the words of Barcones as “nonsense” and in the same line the Vice -Secretary of Autonomous Coordination of the PP, Elías Bendodo, who labeled the head of Civil Protection as “one more pyolman” has pronounced. Barcones, at the press conference after the meeting of the State Coordination and Management Committee (CECOD) of the fires, has defended its management – “the aid has arrived when it has been needed” – and explained that he made his controversial statements “for the dignity of the National Civil Protection System” that he considered that he was being attacked with false information.
The head of Civil Protection has made an appeal to park controversies and continue working on the extinction of fires, but also to cease personal attacks against it. “I would ask them to stop insulting me,” he said in reference to the words of Bendodo. “It seems so strong, so little responsible and so little ethical that anyone who has done everything he has been able to do to help him call him a pyron. How far are we going to arrive to try to discredit a person? “A little measure, a little serenity and a little responsibility because, at the moment, to any person in charge, to call Piómano is accusing me of a crime, he is saying that I am a criminal. How far are we going to go?
📺 Video | The Director of Civil Protection responds to Bendodo (PP): “It seems so strong (…) How far are we going to go? What is it to try to discredit a person? Calling me a pyómano, are you accusing me of a crime?”
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The first to criticize the words of the Wednesday of the head of Civil Protection has been Rueda. “If they believe that with the aggressiveness of some ministers in social networks, with the absences or with saying the government that this was the thing of the autonomous communities until they realized that if it burns a good part of the country, something will have to say the government of the country, if with this they want to hide, I tell them that it is not true,” he said after visiting the Quiroga command center (Lugo) for the Laruco fire (Ourense) 45,000 hectares since August 13. Rueda recalled that there were government representatives in the coordination centers of the fires and is sure that they “transmitted to the government the needs” of the Galician media authorities to fight against the flames. “If the Government thought that they did not have to attend them or that it did not go with them, it is something else, but I do not admit that these nonsense be said to divert guilt,” he said. “Everyone will know what he did, there the central government does not know how to explain why until this [los incendios] He took another dimension, thought he didn’t go with them. ”
Rueda has not referred to the two messages responsible for the Xunta sent on the afternoon of August 15 of the central government and revealed the country on Wednesday. In the first, of the 13.42, the Minister of Rural Affairs, María José Gómez Rodríguez, made a generic request for “more available heavy machinery (bulldozers), Forest Fire Reinforcing Brigades (BRIF) and all air media of fixed wing or helicopters that the central government has available “, as well as” Army troops to collaborate. “The second, more than seven hours later, requested the” collaboration of shoe engineers belonging to the Brilat [una brigada del Ejército de Tierra que tiene su cuartel general en Pontevedra] With machinery necessary for the execution of the work necessary for the consolidation of perimeters in fire operations [y] all those other means that the state administration can contribute for the extinction of fires and population protection ”.
For his part, the Deputy Secretary of Autonomic Coordination of the PP, Elías Bendod The problems, ”he said at the doors of the match headquarters in Madrid. He has also insisted on the opposition of the PP to the State Pact to resolve the fires proposed by the central government and has branded it from a “smoke curtain”, adding that Pedro Sánchez has assumed a “passive attitude” in fire management. “It cannot be that if they need the help, that they ask. It passed in the Dana and passes now. A serious and responsible government does not wait for the autonomous communities to ask for help, a serious and responsible government tends to tend and say what they need. We do not believe anything the smoke curtain of Pedro Sánchez,” he said.
Asked at a press conference for these accusations, the General Director of Civil Protection, Virginia Barcones, has defended her management and indicated that they respond to a defense of “the dignity of the National Civil Protection System”: “For all the men and women who have been giving the best of themselves, with absolute vocation of public service and delivery. From the firefighters that with extreme temperatures have been intense day, beating against the flames. The system as a whole, and all the public servants of this General Directorate that have been giving absolutely everything day after day so that all those needs determined by the autonomic responsible for the emergency had the means immediately. ” The head of Civil Protection has denied, as the PP has insisted in recent days, that the help would have been late, but “has arrived when it has been requested.”
