the president of the Valencia region recognizes “errors” apologizes

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“As president of the Generalitat (regional government, Editor’s note.), I want to apologize” to the people who had “the feeling that help was not arriving or not enough”declared Carlos Mazón, president of the Valencia region, in a highly anticipated speech this Friday, November 15, 2024.

In it, he had to account for the problems which marked the authorities’ late reaction to this disaster.

“I’m not going to deny (that there were) mistakes”

He admitted there had been “mistakes” in the handling of last month’s dramatic floods, which caused at least 224 dead.

“I am not going to deny (that there were) mistakes,” Carlos Mazón declared before the regional parliament to report on the authorities’ response to this unprecedented crisis.

New floods

Barely a fortnight after these deadly floods, the Valencia region was once again affected, along with Andalusia, by torrential rains on Wednesday November 13.

LAemet, the Spanish meteorological agency, recorded accumulations of 110 liters of water per square meter (110 millimeters) in Alcudia de Veo, in the Valencia hinterland, and 88 liters (88 mm) in Chiva, village already hit by floods at the end of October.

With AFP

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