{"id":57638,"date":"2024-11-03T07:04:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T06:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57638"},"modified":"2025-11-03T00:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:49:01","slug":"for-the-government-it-was-more-urgent-to-assault-rtve-than-to-send-the-army-to-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/03\/for-the-government-it-was-more-urgent-to-assault-rtve-than-to-send-the-army-to-save-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"For the government it was more 'urgent' to assault RTVE than to send the Army to save lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No country can consider itself safe from suffering a terrible natural disaster like the one Spain has experienced this week with the cold drop.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/02\/pedro-sanchez-took-4-days-to-order-a-large-military-deployment-and-justified-it-by-lying\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez took 4 days to order a large military deployment and justified it by lying<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/30\/the-political-parties-and-deputies-who-have-stepped-over-the-catastrophe-to-assault-rtve\/\">The political parties and deputies who have stepped over the catastrophe to assault RTVE<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>A catastrophic situation that was already known on Tuesday evening<\/big><\/p>\n<p>What a country can do in the face of this is to prevent it before it happens and <strong>to take the most appropriate decisions as soon as possible once the disaster has arrived<\/strong>. This week, in some parts of Spain, people have spent two days trapped on roads that were seriously damaged by the floods. <strong>In some places, they have been without running water or electricity for five days.<\/strong> In a situation of chaos, with the streets in darkness, citizens of the affected areas have suffered looting, robbery and assaults on their homes. <strong>All this while many bodies remain uncollected<\/strong> in garages and parkings that are still flooded. On Tuesday evening, October 29, we already had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/29\/the-terrible-images-of-the-floods-recorded-in-several-regions-of-spain\/\">images and information that allowed us to understand the magnitude of the catastrophe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>On Wednesday, the government needed to attack RTVE<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Instead of acting immediately, <strong>the government took advantage of the situation to cancel the control session in Congress<\/strong> (that is, to avoid being held accountable for its actions before our representatives) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/30\/the-political-parties-and-deputies-who-have-stepped-over-the-catastrophe-to-assault-rtve\/\">but did not want to postpone the vote on an \"urgent\" decree to assault the Radiotelevisi\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola (RTVE) council<\/a>, an assault that leaves the reins of this state communication group in the hands of the government and its allies, <strong>leaving out the PP (the party with the most votes) and Vox (the third most votes)<\/strong>, in a clear mockery of democracy.<\/p>\n<p><big>The government delayed the large deployment of the Armed Forces for four days<\/big><\/p>\n<p>In a situation like this, <strong>the government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez has acted in a seriously negligent manner<\/strong>, evading its responsibility, leaving inactive the legal mechanisms at its disposal for catastrophes like these and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/02\/pedro-sanchez-took-4-days-to-order-a-large-military-deployment-and-justified-it-by-lying\/\">delaying four days a large deployment of the Armed Forces<\/a>, <strong>a delay that thousands of residents of Valencia have tried to compensate for with their generosity<\/strong>, walking to the affected areas to help.<\/p>\n<p><big>On Friday, the BOE published the attack on RTVE as the only 'urgent measure'<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Friday, November 1,<\/strong> a public holiday in Spain and when the government had still not ordered a large deployment of the Armed Forces in the area of \u200b\u200bthe catastrophe, <a href=\"https:\/\/boe.es\/boe\/dias\/2024\/11\/01\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Official State Gazette (BOE) published the assault on RTVE as the only \"urgent measure\"<\/a>. <strong>For S\u00e1nchez's government, it was more 'urgent' to assault RTVE than to send the Army to save lives,<\/strong> perhaps because the former gives it political gain and the latter gives it no benefit. <strong>How many lives have been lost due to this aberrant order of priorities of the government?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>A performance worthy of a band of heartless people<\/big><\/p>\n<p>As if the above were not enough, on Friday we also learned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/01\/france-offered-200-firefighters-to-spain-but-the-government-rejected-them-it-is-not-necessary\/\">the government's rejection of the aid offered by France<\/a>. This whole series of events, unthinkable in any other developed country, can only be explained as <strong>an absolute dereliction of responsibilities that should have political and criminal consequences<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This week we have had the clearest demonstration that <strong>Spain is governed by a band of heartless people<\/strong>, by unscrupulous people who live isolated from the daily reality of their compatriots. <strong>We are governed by a bunch of wretches who have put their partisan interests above the lives of the Spanish people<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><big>The government must answer to justice for this<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This monstrosity was captured in the image that heads these lines: <strong>a half-empty Congress, after the opposition refused to participate in this infamy<\/strong>, in which the government and its partners voted to urgently assault RTVE <strong>while hundreds of corpses waited to be collected and thousands of Valencians had already spent an entire night without electricity or running water<\/strong>. This image should haunt its protagonists in each and every day that they have left to live. As for the rest, <strong>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<\/strong> when the time comes again to go to vote.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/184387553@N07\/54103678932\/in\/dateposted\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vox Congreso<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No country can consider itself safe from suffering a terrible natural disaster like the one Spain has experienced this week with the cold drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}