The government has already mobilized disposition of regional emergency controls all the resources of the State available for fire extinguishing. This is stated in unison all the voices of the Executive that on Monday have requested the PP not to use the greatest crisis caused by fire as a weapon of political confrontation due to opposition strategy. And they urge the autonomous community that cannot face the management immediately propose that the central government assumes the powers with the declaration of level 3 of emergency.
“All the available means of the State are at the service of the Autonomous Communities. And it is the Autonomous Communities, within the framework of their powers, which have to decide that the command passes to the Government of Spain if they consider that they cannot exercise control. On our part, insist that absolutely all the media have been put at the service of the autonomic president, who is the one who has the command,” said the first vice president, María Jesús.
Although he has measured the tone of his criticism and has avoided direct confrontation while Spain continues to burning on the four sides, Montero has reproached the PP to use a crisis of the magnitude of this wave of fires, which has compared the Dana de Valencia, to try to unravel Pedro Sánchez.
“The PP throws balls out and does not assume their responsibility. When they are badly given, as in Valencia or now with fire, they are inhibited from their own responsibilities and try to blame the Government of Spain. And it is irresponsibility. First, because the competences reside in the communities. And second, because citizens do not understand that when the water comes or fire, some dedicate themselves to confronting no longer try to stop the crisis,” he said.
The vice president also recalled that the central government has increased the budget in fire fighting and has promoted legislation in favor of forest agents that, however, communities do not apply. “We have increased budget items in the fight against fire prevention. We have increased these items more than 20%, although the powers lie in the communities. And I call that these communities comply with the basic law of forest firefighters approved by the Government of Spain and that implies improvements in their working and salary conditions.”
For his part, Minister Óscar López has also asked the regional presidents of the PP to “be up to the crisis that plagues Spain and has affected Feijóo to try to make opposition while Spain burns. “The regional presidents are not Tertulians or commentators. They are a state and they are their powers. What they have to do is close their shoulder,” he said.
European aid
In turn, the Minister of Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, announced on Monday that “between today and tomorrow” the European Civil Protection Service will send around 60 German firefighters and vehicles, and between 80 and 100 from France, to combat the Jarilla fire (Cáceres), which has already burned 11,000 hectares. This afternoon will also arrive 2 Blackhop helicopters from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which will operate in the same fire.
In addition, Aagesen has detailed that two vans with high pressure motor pumps from the Netherlands are expected, which will join the two cistern aircraft that arrived last weekend from Italy to face the different fires in León. The Minister, who has attended the media before the Coordination of Forest Fire Information Coordination in Madrid, has raised a “thanks at European level.”
