DANA in Spain: President Pedro Sánchez will ask to appear in Congress to take stock

The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, will ask to appear in Congress to report on the management of the DANA (cold drop) that at the end of October devastated different towns in the Valencian Community and caused more than two hundred deaths.

Moncloa sources reported that Sánchez’s appearance could be included in the November 27 session, once the Spanish president returns from his trip to Brazil to attend the G20 meetings.

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Before that, next Wednesday the 20th, the third vice president of the Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, who will report in Congress, in what will be the high point of the political agenda of the week in Spain.

While the cleaning and reconstruction tasks advance in the areas devastated by DANA, which caused more than 200 deaths and thousands of people affected, the debate grows around political responsibilities for the management of the catastrophe, after the restructuring of its Government decided by the regional president of Valencia (this, the area most affected by the storm), the conservative Carlos Mazón.

Ribera is in the crosshairs of the main opposition party, the Popular Party (PP) and her appointment as European commissioner in the new college of commissioners of the president of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is even in danger, by promoting the rejection of his candidacy in the Eurochamber.

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It is also expected that this Wednesday in the Congress Questions are repeated to various ministers about their responsibilities in the face of the tragedy. It will be in the plenary session where the decree of aid for those affected approved by the Government.

So far, the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres (in Congress) and the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles (in Congress) have already appeared in Parliament to report on the Executive’s management in relation to the effects of DANA. in the Senate), on November 13.