The political fight between the PP and the PSOE at the expense of the management of the dana, which has caused 222 deaths in the province of Valencia, is being fought on all fronts. Perhaps the most unexpected was the one that was revealed this Thursday in the control session of the Valencian Cortes: that of the clothing used. The Valencian vice president, Susana Camarero, of the PP, reproached the Government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, of the PSPV-PSOE, in the morning for dedicating herself to “doing politics with a civil protection suit and at the door of the Cecopi [Centro de Coordinación Operativa Integrado]”. The socialist, who has attended several meetings of the (Cecopi) with civil protection clothing and wellies, responded in the afternoon that in the affected towns she is visiting she does not see people “in heels and skirts.”
Camarero has launched this reproach in his reply to the socialist deputy Rosa Peris, who had accused the new second vice president, Lieutenant General Francisco José Gan Pampols, that “the first thing he has rebuilt is his salary” with the decree approved this week by the Consell, hours after taking office, to eliminate the 15% cap on salaries higher than that of the president. Peris addressed Pampols: “We already know what he has been busy with in recent days: shuffling papers to get a custom suit made.”
The vice president of the Consell has asked the PSOE “what it is going to do for those affected by the dana” and has demanded that it stop “hoaxes, lies and misrepresentations.” “This is what they have been doing for a month, in electoral tactics, trying to find a return for the greatest tragedy of this community,” he reproached. And he has gone on the attack, emphasizing that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, charges “80,000 euros compared to the 98,451 of the Government delegate, who is dedicated to doing politics in a Civil Protection suit and at the door of the Cecopi.” “The lady who earns the most at Cecopi is dedicated to politics,” he added, and maintained that the PSOE has been “looking at its navel for a month” instead of “worrying about reconstruction like the others.”
Asked about the new order, Bernabé pointed out that each person defines themselves with their “opinions and evaluations.” “I come dressed because I can’t come with heels to the towns I go to every day, like Paiporta, Massanassa, Alfafar, Sedaví, Benetússer, Picanya, Albal. “I don’t see people there in heels and skirts.” The count in X reflects the visits to these towns.
In this way, the delegate alluded to the absence of the main political leaders of the Generalitat in the affected populations. Last Sunday, Bernabé received boos and insults from some residents of Massanassa when he visited the Valencian town on the occasion of the death of a Tragsa employee who was working inside a school. Neither the Minister of Education, José Antonio Rovira, who summoned the media at the Palau de la Generalitat, nor the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, nor the vice president, Susana Camarero, attended the scene of the events.
The last time Mazón participated in a public event in one of the affected towns was during the visit of the Kings to Chiva on November 19. The demonstration against his management on November 9 brought together more than 100,000 people in Valencia. Two days later, he was greeted with boos and insults at his visit to Torrent. This Thursday he left the Palau de la Generalitat to attend an event in Castellón.
The political fight at the expense of the management of the dana extends to the choice of clothing | News from the Valencian Community
The Government delegate, Pialar Barnabé, on the left, along with Carlos Mazón, the Minister of Emergencies and the Interior, Juan Carlos Valderrama, the Vice President
