The battle for the story after the Dana on October 29 in the province of Valencia continues. The Minister of Science and Universities, Diana Morantalso general secretary of the PSPV, he visited this Friday Cocentaina in full controversy around the resignation of the government commissioner for the Dana, José María Ángelafter the suspicions against him for having been able to falsify his academic title to access his position of official in the Diputación de Valencia in the 1980s.
The controversy related to Angel, who has also resigned as president of the PSPV, has been present throughout the day and the Minister of Science has defended her decision to abandon her positions. “The commissioner was asked for explanations and gave them,” he said, insisting that “no one has asked him for resignation and he has decided to step aside Because he considers, just as he considers the PSPV and the Government of Spain, that the value to be protected is the 228 fatal victims of the Dana and their relatives. ”
The minister has said “to believe” that “there is an interest in which we are talking about other things and not the main objective, which is to accompany the victims of the Dana. Surely there is interest that it will not speak of October 29,” he insisted, has insisted, “Because that day there were many people who were not at their workplace”. In addition, in implicit reference to the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, the general secretary of the PSPV has argued that “we are talking about academic degrees, and there are people with titles that were biting trophies that day and mocking the public universities for having closed the classes.”
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Morant has also criticized Mazón declaring that “you can have a university degree and be in Parranda while people are dying,” and has even criticized that the Chief of the Consell “has given up to eight different versions of what they did that afternoon, when it was locked in the ventorro“, In reference to the restaurant in which Mazón ate the day of floods, when” of course he did not fulfill his obligation to protect citizens. “
In this sense, Morant has concluded that “to do politics a title is not necessary: it does Missing dignity And here who has to resign is President Carlos Mazón. ”Thus, the minister has requested the call for elections, and has said” not being afraid of the voice of citizenship “before a hypothetical electoral scenario after the cases that are affecting her party, such as that related to the resignation of José María Ángel, whom she has wished” that he can defend the honorability of his name from the private sphere. “
The general secretary of the PSPV, in addition, still asked about the academic degree allegedly falsified by Angel, has replied that “giving a television version and giving another different version before the judge”, now reference to the president of the Diputación de Valencia, Vicente Mompóalso of the PP, “it is falsify the truth and condemn it deeply.” Morant has also loaded against the president of the National PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that “the first day he said that he had been continuously informed by Mazón of every detail of what happened on October 29 and today we know, by the registration of calls, that Mr. Mazón and Mr. Feijóo did not speak.”
The presidency of the PSPV, vacancy
Diana Morant serves the media in Cocentaina / Juani Ruz
On the other hand, Angel's resignation has resulted in The PSPV presidency is vacant. This honorary position, traditionally occupied by Alicante until the appointment of the recently resigned Commissioner for the Dana, will be without occupying, as Morant said. “I have no intention of occupying it at the moment,” he said, arguing that “we still have the pain of having lost a person who for us is an institution,” in reference to Angel.
At this point he has once again defended the management of the former regional Secretary of Security and Emergencies during the Botànic, and recalled the “terrible fire” that Gandia suffered in 2018, a city of which Morant was mayor. “One hundred houses were burned and there were no dead precisely because Angel was there adviceing the mayor and between the two we made the right decisions, which saved lives.” The minister has reiterated her “defense” of the “work that José María Ángel has done as a politician”, when “there are many politicians who can not defend themselves and carry 228 dead behind them”.
About Angel's couple, Carmen Ninenetformer regional and deputy director of the Valencian Museum of Enlightenment and Modernity, whom the Valencia Diputación is also investigating for a possible false degree, Morant has said that its resignation, demanded by the PP, “is a personal matter.” And the minister, also asked about government relations with the Catalan independence parties, on whom the hypothetical approval of some depends General State Budgetshas defended the forgation of the debt offered by the Executive led by Pedro Sánchez to the Valencian Community and “a similar financing system” to which it has been offered to Catalonia, “which would be 1.8 billion euros for the community without fiscal sales to those who have the most and a commitment to strengthen public services.” The Minister has reproached Mazón's “rejection” to this proposal.
Visit to Cocentaina
These statements have ruled by the minister having signed the Book of Honor of the City of Cocentaina. Morant has pledged to attend the Fira de Tots Sants, which is celebrated the first days of November in the Comarch capital of Comtat and that on previous occasions have visited other ministers, as was the case precisely by Pedro Duque, predecessor of Morant. The last position of the Government of Spain that visited the town was José Luis Escrivá, who until a year was Minister for Digital Transformation and the Public Function and attended this municipality at the parties last year, held in August.
The minister has defended that “carries the tradition and the Valencian culture,” and in the town has visited the Municipal Day Center breathe and the center of people with Alzheimer's. Previously Morant has been able to greet Carmen Pascual, daughter of the historic composer Gustavo Pascual Falcócomposer of the pasodoble “Paquito el Chocolatero”. The meeting took place at the daughter of the composer, on Sant Cristòfol street, adjacent to the City Council.
Finally, Morant has been accompanied during his visit by the mayor of the town, Rubén Muñozalso of the PSPV; by the secretary general of the party in the province, Rubén Alfaroalso mayor of Elda, present despite the fact that the general secretary of the PSPV has attended the town as Minister; and by the subdelegate of the Government, Juan Antonio Nieveswhich have received it in this order on its arrival at the gates of the City of Cocentaina. Among the companions was also José Antonio Amatnumber 4 in the PSPV executive and maximum representative of the province of Alicante in this organ; and several members of the Municipal Government of Cocentaina, including Jordi Plaof Commitmentthat until June he was mayor of the town to assign his post in the middle of the mandate to the current mayor under a pact between the two formations.
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