The interim president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, will appear this Tuesday at 4pm. in the Dana commission of inquiry of the Valencian Cortes to report on the reconstruction work in the area affected by the flood of October 2024, which cost the lives of 229 people, and to submit to questions from the parliamentary groups. He does so a week after his resignation, on November 3, and his last public appearance in the plenary session of the Valencian government which took place the following day in Alicante. Since then, silence.
His appearance, which he makes at his request, takes place in the midst of absolute secrecy on the part of PP and Vox regarding the contacts and negotiations for his possible replacement at the helm of the Generalitat, with a deadline for presenting a candidate which expires on November 19th. And after new revelations that tighten the circle on his actions that afternoon, such as the fact that he continued to have lunch with the journalist Maribel Vilaplana until at least 6.45pm, when the then Minister of the Interior, Salomé Pradas, had already informed him at 5.37pm. of the “extreme gravity” of what was happening in Utiel, as this newspaper revealed.
A few minutes before the apparition, about a hundred people gathered in front of the Generalitat headquarters. “PP guilty, Vox responsible,” they shouted. Or “They are not dead, they were murdered”, in reference to the 229 who died on the day of the flood, reports Cristina Vázquez.
At the head of one of the banners was Mariló Gradolí, spokesperson for the Association of Mortal Victims of Dana 29-O, who harshly criticized the fact that the Presidency of the Valencian Parliament sent them to a room on another floor, away from Mazón, to follow their statement. “It is a paripé. To see it through a plasma, we prefer to inform ourselves through the media,” he said.
