This Thursday, Les Corts Valencianes recognized all the emergency services that participated in the attention and extinction of the Campanar fire, in which ten people died, an award that those responsible for these services have thanked as it serves as an incentive for them to continue with their work. work.
This Thursday, the Valencian Parliament commemorated April 25, Les Corts Day, with an institutional event in which the Chamber presented the Francesc de Vinatea High Distinction to all security, emergency and emergency agents and services that They participated in extinguishing the fire in a building in the Campanar neighborhood of València on February 22.
Specifically, diplomas have been delivered to the National Police and the Unit Attached to the Valencian Community; the Local Police of Valencia; the Military Emergency Unit; the Valencian Agency for Security and Emergency Response; Civil protection; the Community Health Emergency Service; the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Valencia and the Office of the Generalitat for Assistance to Victims of Crime of Valencia.
In addition, the Vinatea plaque has been awarded to the Fire Department, Prevention and Emergency Intervention of the Valencia City Council and the Provincial Firefighters Consortium, who have received a loud ovation from the chamber with all attendees standing.
Those responsible for the different services have assured that that day they did what they had to do, but they have been grateful for this recognition as it encourages them to continue developing their work, while all of them have had a memory for the victims of this catastrophe.
In her institutional speech, the president of Les Corts, Llanos Massó (Vox), assured that for her it is “an honor to have given this high distinction to those who demonstrated their heroism and professionalism in those terrible days.”
The event, held in the chamber, was attended by about 50 deputies, among them, the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, while among the guests were authorities such as the former president Joan Lerma or the Government delegate. in Comunitat, Pilar Bernabé.
In an institutional key, Massó has assured that institutions, including the Valencian parliament, have “the duty to avoid breaking up unity”, and must be “guarantors of a unity” that does not belong to them and which they must protect.
He has advocated promoting “concord, harmony, and commitment with the Valencians, always with firm respect for the law, and for our common homeland, Spain”, and has criticized that on some occasions, in the past, there have been ” used institutions or celebrations like this to divide, not unite.
“If we believe in true equality, we must tend towards an organization and institutions that make us all equal in rights and obligations,” he stated, before ensuring that the actions “cannot be aimed at seeing who gets more, instead Let’s see who manages better.”
“We must promote healthy competition instead of competition,” he defended, and indicated that the Community cannot allow “the disloyal to be rewarded and the loyal to be punished or, at least, ignored.”
Regarding April 25, the date on which the loss of Valencian jurisdiction is commemorated due to the defeat in the battle of Almansa, he pointed out that “this is history, and does not require more memory than the memory of some events that really happened.” , and whose consequences must be analyzed by historians, not by politicians.
The president of the Valencian parliament has considered that this could be “a good time” to rethink the activity of Les Corts and whether they are truly doing “what is appropriate to be as useful as possible to citizens.”
In this sense, he has invited us to reflect on “how many laws are enough to ensure good government”, in order to “identify the optimal amount of regulation that allows the proper functioning of our society.”
The PP ombudsman, Miguel Barrachina, considered that the president’s speech was “one of harmony, agreement and unity, without political adhesions”, and in his opinion, it was at the level that the honorees deserved.
The Vox Ombudsman, José María Llanos, has stated the same thing, for whom it has been “a speech of unity, of remembering history as it was” and “a speech of equality for all Valencians.”
For his part, the socialist ombudsman, José Muñoz, has criticized the fact that a “decaffeinated” event has been held with practically no guests from civil society, and has regretted a speech that, in his opinion, shows that “the extreme right wants to put an end to the autonomous State”.
Joan Baldoví, Catalan ombudsman of Compromís, has criticized the fact that the president has not made “a small effort” to speak in Valencian, and that she has been “more concerned with giving her political speech than with claiming the importance of Valencians recovering the institutions.” .
