The steps of Carlos Mazón during the day of the DANA catastrophe last Tuesday, October 29, are the main key to unraveling what went wrong in the actions of the Generalitat Valenciana.
The Valencian president experienced the first signs of the disaster that was approaching in the Palau de la Generalitat. That Tuesday morning he had chained three events outside of DANA without canceling his agenda at any time. The last, with employers and unions, to address the budgets for next 2025.
What’s more, after the last event with the employers and the unions, which ended at 2:30 p.m., the president left the Palau on foot for a working lunch. The big question is, who did the president eat with?
ElDiario.es has confirmed that Carlos Mazón shared a table and tablecloth with the Valencian journalist Maribel Vilaplana in a restaurant near the Palau de la Generalitat. Sources from around Vilaplana have explained to elDiario.es that the president of the Generalitat offered her the direction of À Punt and that the journalist rejected the offer. Maribel Vilaplana is currently a spokesperson for the Levante UD football team and a media consultant. The journalist denied the offer of a position that is currently accessed through public competition.
The agape lasted, as confirmed by sources close to the journalist, “until after 5:00 p.m.” These hours contrast with the version from other sources that explain that the meal would have lasted until 6 p.m., when in the Utiel-Requena region the DANA was already causing havoc.
Just at the time of that meal, the key meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi) was taking place, to which Mazón arrived late. It had started at 5:00 p.m. Finally, the president arrived at Cecopi at 7:30 p.m. and “everything discussed had to be explained to him again,” which slowed down decision-making even more. The massive mobile alert was not sent until 8:12 p.m., when thousands of unsuspecting people were already suffering from the scourge of DANA.
Presidency sources recognize the meeting, a “private working lunch”, with the journalist, “a professional of recognized prestige and extensive experience in the audiovisual and communication sector.” He interviewed this person to discuss the possibility of directing and joining the new regional television project, À Punt. The meeting, they say, began at 3 p.m., in a place located a few minutes from the Palau de la Generalitat, in the El Ventorro restaurant. “For reasons of privacy and confidentiality, because this person currently works in an audiovisual and communication company, and in order not to compromise his employment and professional situation, he was not informed of the terms described above before,” they indicate from the Palau.
The silence about his agenda caused all kinds of rumors on social networks. “After the wave of lies and defamations that have circulated these days, even going as far as personal insults, it is mandatory to nip this tsunami of hoaxes in the bud. This is one more meeting in the round of meetings that the President and his team from the Generalitat are having to sound out professionals from the world of communication to join the A Punt project,” they say.
Before this meeting, the president had already received all the information that there was up to that moment on the evolution of the dana from Minister Salomé Pradas, Mazón’s team insists. Likewise, “during the entire meeting, the president was also receiving information on the evolution of the storm from the counselor, who was already with her Emergency team following and supervising the evolution of the situation from the L’Eliana command center. ”.
“After finishing the meeting, he arrived at the Palau de la Generalitat at 6 p.m., from where he continued to be promptly informed along with his cabinet of the evolution of the situation caused by the damage through the information that all the staff of the Generalitat conveyed to him. , who was in person at the Cecopi meeting, which began at 5 p.m. Once the president was informed of the risk of the Forata dam breaking, and of the radical change in the scenario, with the danger that this entailed, he traveled to the La Eliana command center after 7 p.m., to remain in situ. the whole situation”, they specify.
On all these issues, and the management of the 29th and beyond, the President will give a detailed report in the appearance he will have next Thursday in Les Corts.
Source: www.eldiario.es
