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Wildfires Recede in Spain as PSOE–PP Clash Over Response and Accountability Intensifies

Parliamentary showdowns loom over funding, timing, and control of emergency resources in the wildfire response.

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Antonio Danz, en rueda de prensa en el Parlamento de Andalucía.

Overview

  • Authorities report fires increasingly under control after weeks of blazes across multiple regions.
  • PSOE cites €253 million transferred to regions for prevention and says aid decrees and disaster declarations are prepared for Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting.
  • PP leaders accuse the central government of arriving late and mishandling the crisis and plan to summon ministers to the Senate.
  • Several PP-led regions declared ‘situación operativa 2’, shifting extraordinary resources to the State, while Andalusia says it stabilized fires without requesting such means.
  • The dispute escalates rhetorically after Elías Bendodo labeled Virginia Barcones a “pirómana,” as Diana Morant and Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca trade barbs in Valencia.