The political future of Carlos Mazón is shaping up “very dark”, judges the Spanish conservative site The Confidential. Aged 50, this “baron” of the Spanish Popular Party (PP, traditional right) is going through “son pire moment” since he occupied the presidency of the autonomous region of Valencia, the territory most affected by dana (“cold drop”) of October 29, notes the Valencian newspaper Levante-El Mercantil Valenciano.
“As the days pass”, chain The Confidential, l’“incompetence” of Mazón and its regional government in the management of this tragedy, which took the lives of more than 200 people and devastated the east and part of the south of Spain, is becoming more and more evident.
The conservative leader must deliver explanations to the regional parliament in Valencia on Thursday, November 14. But “it is already possible to affirm that the errors committed by the executive led by Mazón are serious enough for it to end up paying sooner or later the heavy bill of political responsibility for the disaster at the regional level”, assures the Madrid media.
Too many failures
Certainly, concede El Diario.es, “All major natural disasters undermine governments. Help never arrives fast enough for victims' needs. The damage is multiplied by planning errors of years or decades
