US EditionValencia Leader Resigns Over Deadly Flood Response
Carlos Mazón resigned amid criticism for delayed alerts and poor flood management that killed 229 people and caused €17 billion in damages, with 71% of residents demanding his resignation.
- Carlos Maz�n, the president of Spain's Valencia region, resigned due to pressure regarding his handling of deadly floods last year.
- Polls indicated that most people in Valencia wanted Maz�n to resign due to his management of the floods.
- Over 50,000 people protested in Valencia, demanding Maz�n's resignation and carrying photos of flood victims.
- Maz�n stated that with his resignation, Spain's government 'no longer has any excuse to keep dragging its feet' regarding recovery efforts.
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A year after the floods caused by the DANA (insulated depression at high levels) in Valencia, the tragedy ended up drowning a presidency: that of the head of the Spanish region, Carlos Mazón, of the right-wing Popular Party (PP), who announced this Monday his resignation after a year of harsh criticism for his management of the catastrophe that caused 229 deaths in the municipality in the east of Spain. “I can no longer,” confessed the now “pres…
The President of the Valencian Regional Government in Spain, Mazon, has declared his resignation.
Spain’s Valencia Leader Resigns Over Handling Of Deadly 2024 Floods
by Stefan J. Bos, Worthy News Europe Bureau Chief MADRID (Worthy News) – The aftermath of Spain’s worst flooding in recent memory became clearer Monday as Valencia’s regional president, Carlos Mazón, resigned after enduring months of political and public backlash over his handling of the 2024 floods that killed more than 200 people. “I can’t go on anymore,” Mazón said in an emotional address at the Palau de la Generalitat Valenciana, the seat of…
Consumed during the tribute to the victims of the disaster of October 2024, the Conservative president presented his resignation on Monday, for lack of party support.
When Carlos Mazón, president of the Valencian Generalitat and leader of the Regional People's Party (PP), presented himself before the press this morning at nine o'clock, he chose solemn words: "To carry on this work requires a force that neither I nor my family have any more." But behind the dramatic tone and the attempt to defend himself, his resignation marks the epilogue of a political and moral crisis that had been inundating for months. Ma…
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