'True News' | Rufián confronts Mazón in Congress: new insult to Dana victims

The podcast of 'ElConstitucional.es', 'Noticias de Verdad', focuses its edition this Monday on the appearance of Carlos Mazón before the Congress commission investigating the management of the DANA of October 2024 and on the confrontation between the former Valencian president and the ERC deputy Gabriel Rufián.

One of the most tense moments of the session came when Rufián attacked Mazón during his intervention and questioned his actions during the emergency. The ERC deputy reproached him for attending the commission "with such a good face, so tanned" and accused him of having been five hours in a private room while the floods were occurring. In his speech, he went so far as to describe the former president as "negligent, useless, reckless homicide and psychopath" and assured that, in his opinion, "he only deserves a cell" and "prison".

The program recovers these statements and analyzes the confrontation between the two during an appearance in which Mazón again defended himself by appealing to the judicial resolutions issued on his actions. The former Valencian president maintained that "the only power that can judge my criminal responsibility are the courts, and they have already ruled on the matter", in reference to the order of the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community that ruled out investigating him.

Pereira also addresses the criticisms of the parliamentary groups of Mazón's management during the DANA and the questions raised about his presence in the Cecopi, the sending of the ES-Alert system and the different versions offered by the former president about what happened during that day. During the appearance, several deputies also questioned the so-called "thesis of inevitability" and Mazón's interpretation of the relationship between the delay of the warning and the deaths.

Another highlight of the program is Mazón's political situation after his departure from the Presidency of the Generalitat. The director of ElConstitucional.es focuses on the fact that the popular leader continues as deputy in the Valencian Cortes and on the criticisms received during the commission for his continuity in Valencian politics, especially from the opposition groups and in a context marked by the demands of the DANA victims.

The second part of the podcast moves to Ceuta, where Alberto Núñez Feijóo has traveled with the president of the European People's Party, Manfred Weber, to meet with the president of the autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas. The program also addresses the fact that Vivas has refused to meet with the Minister of Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, during his visit to the city, while he does hold a meeting with the leader of the PP.

Pereira questions during the program the position adopted by Vivas in the midst of the migratory crisis and maintains that, from his point of view, the president of Ceuta should maintain dialogue with the central government regardless of their political discrepancies. The director of ElConstitucional.es thus differentiates between the opposition work of the PP and the executive responsibilities of an autonomous president, who, he points out, represents all citizens.

The episode concludes with an analysis of Feijóo and Weber's visit to Ceuta and the PP leader's demands regarding the management of the migratory crisis, on a day when the political debate once again places the autonomous city, immigration, and the relationship between the central government and Ceuta's institutions at the center of current events.