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Valencian Government Defends Mazón’s Remote Storm Management, Citing Early AEMET Warnings

Officials say pre-emergency status did not require convening Cecopi.

Overview

  • Generalitat spokesperson Susana Camarero said Mazón monitored the red-alert rains remotely and described the coordination meetings as technical rather than political.
  • Authorities reported that the red alert began at 20:00 in Castellón and at 04:00 in Valencia, and PP officials said Mazón returned to the region several hours before those activations.
  • PP leader Alma Ezcurra argued procedures were updated after last year’s disaster, pointing to the use of Es-Alert and other changes, and accused critics of a double standard by questioning Mazón but not Catalan president Salvador Illa.
  • Camarero maintained that current meetings were not Cecopi sessions because the situation was classified as pre-emergency, rejecting claims that the integrated coordination center should have been convened.
  • Opposition voices renewed criticism over Mazón’s absence, with Gabriel Rufián delivering a harsh rebuke, and critics again invoking the 29-O tragedy and the El Ventorro episode to challenge his credibility.