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Valencia leader admits errors in flood response

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Carlos Mazón, a member of Spain's conservative People's party, is facing calls to resign due to his response to the country's worst natural disaster in recent history. On October 29, torrential rains and floods hit eastern, central, and southern parts of Spain, resulting in the loss of 224 lives. Mazón has conceded that mistakes were made, but refused to step down, attributing the disaster's severity to the unprecedented scale of the event.

  1. ES
    Carlos Mazón
    Accio Cultural del Pais Valenciano
    1. We owe it to the victims and to those who have been affected.
    2. You can't learn from the past without knowing what really happened.
    3. The people of Valencia have the right to know what happened … We need to know why our prior experience of this kind of situation – and why the protocols that have been refined and improved over the past quarter century, and which had worked until Tuesday 29 October – weren't sufficient to avoid or mitigate the damages we've suffered.
    4. I will not shirk any responsibility … There will be self-criticism. There were things that weren't done well.
    5. I maintained my agenda in full knowledge of the situation, and knowing that the regional interior minister and her team had been to some of the affected areas and were in touch with the central government's delegate.

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sources

  1. 1.BBC
  2. 2.Le Monde
  3. 3.The Guardian
  4. 4.CNA News
  5. 5.Agence France-Presse

perspectives

  1. 1.Natural Disasters
  2. 2.Climate Change
  3. 3.Missing person
  4. 4.Floodings
  5. 5.Spain under Pedro Sanchez
  6. 6.Spanish politics
  7. 7.Spanish Monarchy

countries

  1. 1.SpainES
  2. 2.United KingdomGB

organizations

  1. 1.Agencia Estatal de MeteorologíaES
  2. 2.Military Emergency Unit
  3. 3.People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
  4. 4.Popular Party
  5. 5.Socialist PartyFR

persons

  1. 1.Carlos MazónES
  2. 2.José Sánchez Maigallon
  3. 3.Diana Morant
  4. 4.Salomé Pradas

technicals

  1. 1.El President A Picassent
Valencia leader admits errors in flood response