Mazón's first call in the afternoon from DANA, at 5:37 p.m.

MadridFor months the opposition has been trying to put Carlos Mazón on the ropes, but he, determined to exhaust the legislature, has a personal rescue operation underway that this Monday has taken him to Madrid. Despite the fact that during all this time he has been asked for information about what he did from midday until dusk on October 29, while the DANA caused a catastrophe in the Valencian Community, he has been giving it drop by drop when it has interested him. He has used the same strategy at an informative breakfast in the Spanish capital, making public calls he had that day between five thirty and eight in the evening that until now he had refused to reveal. A day, however, in which a judge has clarified the distribution of blame on the management of the cold drop and has rejected the complaint against the Spanish government delegate in Valencia, Pilar Bernabé, because "the competence is autonomous."

In any case, the president of the Generalitat Valenciana has explained that there were 16 conversations: five with the Minister of Emergencies, one with the Director General of Communication, two with a PP trustee, one with the autonomous secretary of Infrastructure, two others with senior officials of his cabinet, three with the president of the Provincial Council. The mayor of this town, the socialist Jordi Mayor, has accused him of lying again and has demanded that he resign after he assured that he had spoken with different mayors. And the Valencian president assured that he had also done so, for example, with the mayor of Utiel, the popular Ricardo Gabaldón, following some images of the floods that Vilaplana had shown him and that made it activate as evidenced by the time he made the first call.

"All the information will be handed over to the investigative committees," Mazón assured, although two weeks ago he refused to provide the list of calls to the Corts Valencianes. It remains to be seen whether the Generalitat Valenciana ends up offering the entire record of Mazón's calls or only confirms the 16 that it has announced. Whatever the case, the Valencian president denies that he was "incommunicado", despite the fact that the first call he revealed was from 17:37 hours. Does this mean that earlier, while he was eating at the Ventorro restaurant with a journalist, he was in fact incommunicado? A few days ago a call from the Spanish Meteorological Agency (Aemet) to the Valencian Generalitat's Emergencies was made public, in which it was warned that "The worst of the storm would be between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.", so Mazón's calls show that it was too late.

The PP had previously leaked a fragment in which the Aemet said "we are not going to bother any more" to try to make it seem that the meteorological agency was minimising the storm and thus exonerate the Valencian president, who insists on the "erroneous" forecasts of the organisation dependent on the Spanish government. Along the same lines, this Monday it has once again placed the focus on the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation and the fact that it did not warn sufficiently of the overflow of the Poio ravine. The war to win the story is total.

"You will wonder why I have allowed so many balls to be installed when the truth is on our side. I have not defended myself as much as until now because it would have meant not focusing on the Valencians. My name is Carlos Mazón and not Pedro Sánchez," he stressed at the informative breakfast in the capital, Valencian trade and also the state leadership of the PP. There was the number 2, Cuca Gamarra, but not the leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who never ends up closing ranks 100% with Mazón.

The conservative president, who has publicly disagreed with the Valencian government's failure to ask the State to declare a national emergency, has linked the candidacy of the Valencian leader in the next regional elections to the success of the recovery. Mazón has argued why he did not ask the Spanish government to take control and has promised that he will be accountable for the recovery. "We are going in a very good direction," he noted, while Moncloa "satisfies the demands of Catalan separatism and fugitives from justice," he denounced.

The Valencian president assumes that he "dragged himself in an almost obscene way" before the Spanish government in the first days of the DANA, especially the day after the storms, when he very affectionately thanked the president, Pedro Sánchez, for the collaboration that the executive of the . Now Mazón maintains that while he "implored", the Spanish government "paid for the first advertising campaign" against him. "From the 30th they decided that what happened was not the worst catastrophe in recent history, but a political board from which to weaken the rival (...). The left has specialized in instrumentalizing catastrophes to gain political benefit: it happened with the Prestige, 11-M, Covid-19 and now with the Poio ravine," he criticised, and presented it as "collateral damage of the Spanish government's excuses to shake off the blame."

Mazón has raised the tone coinciding with a new absence. The Valencian opposition criticizes that this Sunday he did not attend the Llamamiento, the starting shot of the Fallas in the Puertas de Serranos in Valencia. The president was spared a possible booing the day after suffering a scratch during a visit to Orihuela. The other absence is that of not having gone to the Cecopio on October 29 because he was in Ventorro. The judge investigating the events asked the Generalitat Valenciana if the president joined that coordinating body and Mazón said that he will not make comments before responding to the judicial procedure.

"Believe me, I am very eager to make this intervention and someone will have to give explanations about things that he has dared to say, promise and swear," he warned, in a possible reference to the delegate of the Spanish government, Pilar Bernabé, who said that Mazón ended up appearing at the Cecopio - he defends and one of the Valencians by SMS at 8:11 p.m.

Specifically, the judge from Catarroja who is investigating possible crimes of homicide and injuries due to serious negligence by the DANA in the Valencian Country has rejected a complaint against Bernabé, considering that "the competence in matters of civil protection is autonomous." The judge recalls that "the inactivity occurred in this area," that of emergencies, which depends on the Generalitat Valenciana, and not on the state administration. The far-right association Hazte Oír demanded in a document that Bernabé be investigated for not having urged the Ministry of the Interior to declare a national emergency, but the magistrate, in an order this Monday, concludes that the accusation "lacks any legal basis," after recalling who the real responsibility was hanging on.