The leader of the PP has once again marked the differences between the Generalitat Valenciana and the central Government in the management of DANA. Alberto Núñez Feijóo thanked the “exercise in humility” of the regional president Carlos Mazón, who last Friday promised not to run for re-election if he is not capable of leading the reconstruction of his community after the tragic floods. Although the Valencian clung to the position, his party president has highlighted the changes he has made in his government. On the contrary, Feijóo has described an elusive central government, which neither appears nor makes restructuring decisions, which is why he has pointed out that Mazón’s only mistake was having trusted that Pedro Sánchez would help him in the crisis: “It is proven that the central government was acting in bad faith from the first moment.”
Feijóo has defended that “it is not easy” for an autonomous community to manage a crisis when the information depends on the central government. “You make decisions based on the information they give you,” he pointed out in reference to the AEMET and the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation, which were the ones that reported on October 29 about the rains and floods. Yet, He has avoided talking about errors on the part of his popular baron in the management of DANA.
The only mistake he could have made “a president without powers” is having “trusted that the president of the Government was going to help him a posteriori,” he noted in an interview in COPE. Thus, Feijóo has blamed Pedro Sánchez for the demonstrations that were held against Mazón and has denounced that the ministries “collaborated in dribs and drabs” while the spokesperson for the Valencian PSOE herself called for the resignation of the president of the Generalitat. However, the popular leader concludes that the Sánchez Government “was acting in bad faith from the first moment.”
“Mazón has done an exercise in humility by coming forward while the central government hides”. Thus, he highlighted that the popular Valencian appeared last Friday in the Corts while Sánchez has not attended Congress for more than a month and Teresa Ribera will do so this Wednesday “forced” by Europe. He also highlights that Mazón has restructured the Generalitat while the Government of Spain “wants to promote those responsible for the catastrophe”, presenting the current third vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge as vice president of the European Commission. , the “top person” of DANA.
Feijóo has described as “successful” the changes in the regional government, especially the appointment of Lieutenant General, Francisco José Gan Pampols, as head of the Vice Presidency for Recovery after DANA and has advanced that there will be more adjustments in the Generalitat. On the contrary, he has described “It is absurd” that Sánchez now wants to make an agreement in Europe with the same “ultra-right” which he wanted to put an end to in order to get Teresa Ribera to be the vice president of the European Commission.