For the government it was more 'urgent' to assault RTVE than to send the Army to save lives

No country can consider itself safe from suffering a terrible natural disaster like the one Spain has experienced this week with the cold drop.

Pedro Sánchez took 4 days to order a large military deployment and justified it by lying
The political parties and deputies who have stepped over the catastrophe to assault RTVE

A catastrophic situation that was already known on Tuesday evening

What a country can do in the face of this is to prevent it before it happens and to take the most appropriate decisions as soon as possible once the disaster has arrived. This week, in some parts of Spain, people have spent two days trapped on roads that were seriously damaged by the floods. In some places, they have been without running water or electricity for five days. In a situation of chaos, with the streets in darkness, citizens of the affected areas have suffered looting, robbery and assaults on their homes. All this while many bodies remain uncollected in garages and parkings that are still flooded. On Tuesday evening, October 29, we already had images and information that allowed us to understand the magnitude of the catastrophe.

On Wednesday, the government needed to attack RTVE

Instead of acting immediately, the government took advantage of the situation to cancel the control session in Congress (that is, to avoid being held accountable for its actions before our representatives) but did not want to postpone the vote on an "urgent" decree to assault the Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) council, an assault that leaves the reins of this state communication group in the hands of the government and its allies, leaving out the PP (the party with the most votes) and Vox (the third most votes), in a clear mockery of democracy.

The government delayed the large deployment of the Armed Forces for four days

In a situation like this, the government of Pedro Sánchez has acted in a seriously negligent manner, evading its responsibility, leaving inactive the legal mechanisms at its disposal for catastrophes like these and delaying four days a large deployment of the Armed Forces, a delay that thousands of residents of Valencia have tried to compensate for with their generosity, walking to the affected areas to help.

On Friday, the BOE published the attack on RTVE as the only 'urgent measure'

On Friday, November 1, a public holiday in Spain and when the government had still not ordered a large deployment of the Armed Forces in the area of ​​the catastrophe, the Official State Gazette (BOE) published the assault on RTVE as the only "urgent measure". For Sánchez's government, it was more 'urgent' to assault RTVE than to send the Army to save lives, perhaps because the former gives it political gain and the latter gives it no benefit. How many lives have been lost due to this aberrant order of priorities of the government?

A performance worthy of a band of heartless people

As if the above were not enough, on Friday we also learned the government's rejection of the aid offered by France. This whole series of events, unthinkable in any other developed country, can only be explained as an absolute dereliction of responsibilities that should have political and criminal consequences.

This week we have had the clearest demonstration that Spain is governed by a band of heartless people, by unscrupulous people who live isolated from the daily reality of their compatriots. We are governed by a bunch of wretches who have put their partisan interests above the lives of the Spanish people.

The government must answer to justice for this

This monstrosity was captured in the image that heads these lines: a half-empty Congress, after the opposition refused to participate in this infamy, in which the government and its partners voted to urgently assault RTVE while hundreds of corpses waited to be collected and thousands of Valencians had already spent an entire night without electricity or running water. This image should haunt its protagonists in each and every day that they have left to live. As for the rest, I hope that the government answers for it before the courts and that the Spanish people do not forget what we have experienced these days when the time comes again to go to vote.

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Photo: Vox Congreso.