Without knowledge of matter and without experience in emergency management. This justified Salome Pradas before the judge of the Dana last Friday, in tears. The former contest assumed the price that meant recognizing that she did not know how to direct a crisis at the most tragic moment in Valencian history: she was sincere before the magistrate when she was not prepared for the position, because she did not have what professionals define as “skill” or “competition” to assess the information that came to her, nor the skill to mobilize her teams. For that, experience and training are needed, and both lacked. Why then did you agree to be a consellera with an area as complex as emergencies? But the price of salvation was even higher, as it unloaded in the “technicians” (officials and professionals) and in some of its subordinates, the responsibility for management and decisions taken from October 28 to the early hours of the 30th. She, added, was only an “institutional representative.”
The ex -consellera Salome Pradas arrives at the Courts of Valencia between shouts and boos
Salome Pradas already paid a high price for his management when at the 22 days of Dana Carlos Mazón dismissed it. It was never explained whether it was for what happened on emergencies or for some very unfortunate statements, or for all at once. Decision of the president who left the former Conmesellera at the point of sight of a management that the judge questions in a forceful way in its instruction. That was the political price that Pradas paid; to which he has inevitably accompanied a personal price, to know in the target of relatives of the victims and not a few victims. There is a lot of pain in this tragedy. It remained to know what the price to be paid for judicial investigation would be, and we have already met it: the former emergency is not willing to assume any responsibility and, therefore, any penalty; Everything happened, he said, because of the decided below in the subsequent chain of command under his charge, with the close collaboration of the State agencies such as the CHJ that did not give information from the poyo. That is why his argument leaves, de facto, the Valencian president outside the judicial stage.
But the price to be paid for Salome Pradas forces to ask why Carlos Mazón appointed it to manage an area of which he had no idea how to do it. Is there political responsibility to appoint people unable to do their job? The question is not new, and refers to many previous, and recent cases, in all parties, in all institutions, in which political positions assume executive competences at the risk of worsening, due to their ignorance and praxis, any crisis. The price to be paid for Salome Pradas also refers to the fact that, on a regular basis, politicians discharge the responsibility for errors in officials and technicians, it is not new. What, in logic, causes discomfort among those who dedicate their lives to public function and who are always subject to the political decisions of the shift managers. Let’s be attentive to what these same officials and technicians will declare before the judge.
To the recent of the team that had to adopt decisions to save lives on the worst day lived in Valencia in decades there was a woman, appointed by Mazón, who never knew or understood what her role should be at the darkest moment “
Salomé Pradas has paid a high price for his salvation because he has recognized before the judge his incompetence for the command post for which he was chosen and has blamed his subordinates of the errors of a management of which she, even if she wants to avoid it, was the main responsible. We will see how instruction progresses, but its declaration on Friday, apart from judicial evolution, installs it in the worst aesthetics of politics and increases distrust, and indignation, among citizens. The same ones who observe in amazement that at the head of the team that should take decisions to save lives on the worst day lived in Valencia in decades there was a woman, appointed by Carlos Mazón, who never knew or understood what his role should be at the darkest moment.
