The regional vice -secretary of the PP, Elías Bendodo, has described this Thursday as “piómana” to the director of Civil Protection, Virginia Barcones, who defended yesterday his management and affected the communities his lack of anticipation in the request of media and the criticisms of the autonomous presidents of Galicia, Castilla y León, Extremadura or Andalusia before the alleged lack of help on the part of the central government. “How far we are going to get, what is worth to try to discredit a person; those who do not contribute, who move away,” Virginia Barcones responded.
“The General Director of Civil Protection is one more pyrómana, she is dedicated to insulting, it is impossible to solve the problems,” blessed in a statement to the media in Madrid. “We have an unable government, surrounded by corruption,” he added.
The PP leader has assured that if a government “is good or bad is measured in complicated times, when there is crisis, and this government has not given the size.” “From Covid to the last immigration crisis, which the government has not responded to the resolution of the Supreme, or to the blackout, when the Spaniards continue without knowing why it occurred,” Blessed concluded.
Almost on the march, Virginia Barcones responded, who has appeared before the means to report the tasks of fire extinguishing. The Director of Civil Protection has asked “how far we are going to go” and “What is worth to try to discredit a person.” “It seems so strong, so little responsible and even so unusual,” he added.
The head of the emergency agency has denied the accusations of the PP, which has been clinging to the premise that “the government is late.” “It is not true that the help has been late, it has arrived when they have requested it,” he said.
Barcones recalled that the presidents of the PP requested on August 15 the activation of European aid, which was already underway from previous days, or that they requested the sending of heavy machinery from one day to another, without a technical margin to deploy them.
“It was not true that anything late had arrived, it was not true that no resource time had been spared,” he said. The head of Civil Protection has listed the mobilized equipment thanks to the fact that “from the first moment” the emergency is communicated to Europe, which has subsequently allowed “an unprecedented deployment” with the help of nine countries of the European mechanism, in addition to Andorra.
As the government has communicated in recent days, these were four aircraft and four helicopters, among the aerial media, and four firefighters with 190 troops, among the land. All of them, from Germany, Slovakia, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Czech Republic.
Also the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, has defended the work of the government. Robles has announced that he has agreed to appear urgently in the Senate next Tuesday afternoon, after the request recorded yesterday by the PP in the Upper House. Robles has said that he will explain what government management has been and will point to those who “have not fulfilled” their obligations for a year.
One day to have “significant advance” in fires
In relation to extinction work, Barcones has reported that weather conditions make this Thursday “an opportunity to have a significant advance” in the fire situation.
The number of outbreaks in operational situations 2 has been reduced on the last day, from 21 to 18. In total, there are more than 400,000 hectares burned in 2025, the highest figure in the last 30 years. There are only four precedents that affect a larger area: 1978, 1985, 1989 and 1994.
