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Spanish regional chief defends his dealing with of Valencia floods By Reuters
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Spanish regional chief defends his dealing with of Valencia floods By Reuters

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By Eva Manez

VALENCIA (Reuters) -The chief of Spain’s Valencia area defended his dealing with of catastrophic floods that killed greater than 200 individuals, saying on Friday he did every thing doable within the face of a “monstrous avalanche of water that exceeded all weather forecasts”.

Addressing regional lawmakers, Carlos Mazon rejected calls to resign, though he mentioned he wouldn’t evade duty and sought forgiveness over final month’s catastrophe.

“I am not going to deny failures, it is not possible to do so, nor would it be useful,” Mazon, of the conservative Folks’s Celebration, mentioned.

Stricken native residents have been fiercely vital, primarily of native authorities but additionally of the nationwide authorities, over their stage of preparedness and for failing to sufficiently warn individuals concerning the dangers of the Oct. 29 storm and its ensuing floods.

Mazon repeated an assertion that he has beforehand made that the physique chargeable for measuring water flows, run by the nationwide authorities, did not ship ample warnings. He promised a public inquiry on the regional meeting into the nationwide and regional governments’ dealing with of the catastrophe.

“The best possible effort was made given the situation, with the information available and the resources at hand, although it is evident that it was not enough,” Mazon mentioned.

‘POLITICAL COWARDICE’

Science Minister Diana Morant, who’s chief of the Socialist celebration in Valencia, described Mazon’s speech as an “act of political cowardice and disrespect”.

She mentioned the Folks’s Celebration ought to dismiss Mazon and name new regional elections as soon as the emergency subsides.

Dozens of residents gathered outdoors the regional meeting, demanding his resignation and chanting “neither forgetting nor forgiving” and “you were eating while others were dying”, referring to a prolonged lunch that Mazon had with an area reporter on the day of the catastrophe.

Mazon mentioned he didn’t cancel his agenda that day as a result of the regional official in control of the emergency providers was dealing with the state of affairs, including he didn’t delay any selections and was saved in control all through the day.

Residents of Paiporta, one of many suburbs of Valencia affected by the floods, vented their anger in opposition to Mazon, the king and queen of Spain and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez throughout their go to on Nov. 4.

Residents have been vital over what they see as tardy alerts from the authorities concerning the risks of the flooding, after which a late response by the emergency providers when catastrophe struck.

“How many of these deaths were avoidable?” mentioned Joan Baldovi, a lawmaker from the far-left Compromis celebration.

He known as for Mazon to step down, describing him as “negligent”.

Spanish regional chief defends his dealing with of Valencia floods By Reuters

Of those that died in Valencia and close by cities and villages, 190 have been Spaniards whereas 26 have been residents from 11 international locations, official information confirmed on Thursday. Nearly half of the useless have been individuals aged 70 years or older.

Emergency staff are nonetheless in search of 16 lacking individuals.

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