Carlos Mazón's chief of staff and right-hand man, José Manuel Cuenca, has supported the former president and refused to answer many questions during the DANA (isolated high-altitude depression) commission hearing in Congress, arguing that the details he could provide to the investigation had already been given to the investigating judge in his testimony as a witness a few days prior. Thus, the journalist also declined to clarify where the then-president of the Valencian government was on the afternoon of the DANA storm after leaving the El Ventorro restaurant and then, according to his account, accompanying journalist Maribel Vilaplana to the parking lot to go to the Palau de la Generalitat (the seat of the Valencian government) and finally leaving for the Cecopi (the regional emergency response center), where he arrived at 8:28 p.m. "These matters have nothing to do with the commission," he insisted during a tense and heated questioning in which Cuenca even asked, "What do I have to do with the emergency?"