The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, announced this Saturday the creation of five committees to manage the crisis generated by DANA. The regional leader accepts the offer of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and creates five immediate response groups, headed by a councilor each, and demands the incorporation of several ministers and the chief of the General Staff. Mazón, five days after the start of the floods, has also asked that the mechanisms to request the European solidarity fund be accelerated.
The regional leader has assumed command in managing the crisis, picking up the gauntlet of the central government. As stated in an appearance, hours after the announced press conference and with a crisis committee that is eight hours late, waiting for it, the groups “will act for my delegation led by a counselor.”
Government sources consulted by elDiario.es guarantee the collaboration of the ministers in these working groups and assure that depending on the topic, the competent ministers and officials will attend because there is no time to waste. On the military level, logically, the representative will be the brigadier general of the UME and the general of the UME deployed in the Zone, they indicate.
Mazón has valued the work of the volunteers, whom he has thanked for their mobilization, and has pointed out: “The humanitarian catastrophe that we are experiencing demonstrates that we are facing an emergency whose dimension is not limited to the local, provincial, regional dimension. or national. “It will be up to us Valencians to solve it with the indispensable help of Spain and Europe.”
Working groups
These groups will focus on five fields: Health, Infrastructure, Housing and Social Services, Employment and Business and Interior. The first committee will be the Health group headed by the Minister of Health Marciano Gómez and requests the incorporation of Minister Mónica García. Its main objective will be the development of an epidemiological risk plan evaluated jointly by epidemiological and preventive experts. The Infrastructure group will be headed by the Minister of the sector, Vicente Martínez Mus, and his Agriculture counterpart, Miguel Barrachina, will participate; The incorporation of Minister Óscar Puente is requested. The main objective is the implementation of a comprehensive urgent recovery plan for the road and railway infrastructure network.
Thirdly, the Social Services and Housing group, where the vice president Susana Camarero and the Minister of Finance, Ruth Merino, will participate; The incorporation of the Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy, and the Minister of Housing Isabel Rodríguez is requested. The main objective will be to relocate people and rebuild homes, along with a package of measures for the vulnerable. The mobilization of the entire state public housing stock and especially Sareb for all necessary relocations is also requested, and that the homes are immediately equipped. They will also request banking intermediation for the suspension of mortgages and loans in force for those affected.
The fourth group will be Employment and Business, headed by the Minister of Employment, José Antonio Rovira and the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Nuria Montes, for which the vice president and Minister of Employment Yolanda Díaz and the Minister of Employment are requested to join. of Economy Carlos Corpus. The main objective will be the authorization of all legal instruments to make the Temporary Employment Regulation Files (ERTE) compatible with the pandemic, and other aid already announced by Díaz.
The fifth group will be the Interior, headed by the Minister of Justice in the Interior, Salomé Pradas, and requested by the already present Minister of the Interior, Fernándo Grande-Marlaska. The priority will be the reinforcement of troops and security control and access to the affected areas to prevent theft.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, said this Saturday that the central government is ready to act. “If the Generalitat needs more resources, it should ask for them,” said Sánchez, who added that “the Valencian authorities know the terrain better than anyone else, they know what needs to be done, and if they do not have enough resources, they should ask for them again from the General Administration of the State”. Both representatives advocate the collaboration of administrations in managing the crisis.
Source: www.eldiario.es
