The Minister of Finance and number two of the PSOE to Congress for Valencia, Arcadi España, has censured the leader of the PP and candidate for president of the Government for the 29N, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for announcing the creation of a single emergencies command after the management of the 2024 dana with the “populares” in charge of the Consell.
“You can’t say you want a single command on one hand when on the other hand you’re questioning with your partners whether climate change exists,” España added, asked by journalists this Monday afternoon before attending an event in Valencia.
In his proposal, Feijóo proposes putting in motion a single emergencies command if he reaches Moncloa, with the aim that the Executive can act from the very first instant “without waiting for them to ask for it.” This initiative was already defended by the head of the opposition after the dana of October 29, 2024, in which 234 people died in the province of Valencia.
Arcadi España considers that “Feijóo has to make a reflection before talking about emergencies” in view of what happened in the Valencian Community with the dana and with other climate catastrophes “when it has been time for them to manage them for the Partido Popular.” “He has a lot to learn,” he stressed, also calling for them not to be “denialists.”
Against that position, he has asserted that “we have to make an effort among all the institutions to trust science, to trust professionals, not to politicize catastrophes, but to work together to support all the people who are harmed during this kind of events.”