Mazón goes on the offensive against Moncloa: he accuses them of the delay in sending the alert

MadridThe Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, has gone on the offensive and blames the Spanish government for the delay in sending the alert for the DANA. In an interview on Cope, he has shaken off responsibility for not alerting citizens in time on Tuesday of last week and states that the problem is that the Spanish government deactivated the hydrographic alert three times during the day, so the Valencian Generalitat did not receive the notice that the forecast was raised from 200 l/m2 to 1,700 l/m2 until 18.45 h. Specifically, the Valencian president points to the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation, which depends on the Ministry of Ecological Transition. ~BK_LINEBREAK~ From the department piloted by the third vice president, Teresa Ribera, they have already replied that this body "does not have among its powers the issuing of public alerts for risk of flooding." "The responsibility for alerting the population falls to the emergency services coordinated by the autonomous communities," they reply, and pass the ball back to Mazón, who is being strongly questioned for not having activated the alert hours earlier because the population of the affected areas could have reacted in time. ~BK_LINE_BREAK~

The Valencian president also stated that that day, at 3:21 p.m., before the "meteorological revolution", he had already requested that the UME be activated and demanded "all possible help." From then on, he said, the responsibility for activating the troops falls to the military operational commanders. The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who attacked the Spanish government from the start and has closed ranks with Mazón, will appear at 1:30 p.m. on the occasion of the management of the DANA and after the riots this Sunday.