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The lightness and slowness with which the leader managed the first hours of the disaster which killed nearly 220 people pushed thousands of people to demonstrate on Saturday November 9 in the streets of Valencia.
On Tuesday, October 29, at 7 p.m., the Valencian regional president, Carlos Mazón, arrived two hours late for an important meeting: that of Cecopi, the organization that coordinates relief. It is a question of deciding how to react to the worst natural disaster in half a century on this part of the Spanish coast. Following a dana (an isolated depression at high level), a deluge of water rushes into the municipalities of the south of Valence, carrying away everything in its path: human lives, bridges, cars, homes. For three hours, by his own admission, Carlos Mazón had lunch with a journalist to offer her the direction of regional public television.
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How is it possible that the person concerned, the supreme authority to manage floods which were going to be deadliest (at least 210 dead and dozens missing), took so long to deal with such a tragedy? This question, against a backdrop of rage and indignation, was the driving force behind a
