The President of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, visited on Monday three Valencian towns, L’Alcúdia, Barxeta and Carcaixent, affected by last weekend’s storm, which caused significant damage, especially in rural areas, which are still awaiting assessment. The Cogullada district, in Carcaixent, was largely flooded by water on Sunday, due to its proximity to the Barxeta ravine, which overflowed at several points, the proximity of other neighboring boulevards and its low-altitude location.
There, Pérez Llorca, of the PP, demanded that the central government, chaired by the socialist Pedro Sánchez, “accelerate” the works “that never start” in canals and ravines like Poyo, Magro, Saleta and Barxeta to avoid flooding. “I believe that we, the Valencians, do not deserve to be afraid every time it rains,” he stressed. Two hours later, the president sent a message to his
While the Generalitat implements the Simplifica plan to eliminate bureaucracy and speed up work, the Spanish government keeps vital projects in the Barxeta, Poyo and Magro ravines blocked.
We demand the immediate convening of the joint commission to set the deadlines… pic.twitter.com/XcyqkztACB
– Juanfran Pérez Llorca (@JuanFranFines) December 29, 2025
However, the Barxeta ravine project was put out to tender ten days ago, when it was published on the State Public Sector Contracts Platform. That same Monday, a procedure necessary for the continuation of the procedure was also published in the Official State Gazette (BOE). February 10 is the maximum date for submission of bids for the call for tenders for the second phase of works.
This is a project in the Bajo Júcar section consisting of “adaptation to the risk of flooding in the Barxeta ravine, in the province of Valencia, for a maximum total amount of 14,797,534.74 million euros”, as specified in the press release from the Ministry of Ecological Transition. The project is part of the Plan for Recovery and Improvement of Resilience to Floods in the Territory Affected by the Dana in the Valencian Community.
Sources from the Generalitat stressed that the message of
In front of the media, the president said in Cogullada, Carcaixent: “Yesterday all of us Valencians were frightened by the rains that were falling, looking at all the canals and ravines, because the works that should have been done or started from the dana had not yet started. Many of them are still in the project development phase.”
In this sense, Pérez Llorca affirmed that hydraulic infrastructures “must be carried out as emergency works” and explained that, during his recent meeting with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, he informed him that “legislative changes must be made” that “allow these works to be treated as emergency works” because “the bureaucratic procedures that are carried out according to ordinary procedure are not worth it”. He cited as an example the Generalitat’s administrative simplification plan, within which a new decree was approved on Friday, aimed at reducing bureaucracy, removing “certain already unnecessary laws” and “doing things more quickly”.
Pérez Llorca was accompanied by the Minister of Emergencies and Interior, Juan Carlos Valderrama, and the mayor of Carcaixent, Carolina Almiñana, of the PP, who also demanded greater speed in the work of the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar, which depends on the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
The head of the Consell, on the other hand, refused to respond and enter into the debate “of the Sanchist confrontation”, when this newspaper asked him about the statements on the Cadena Ser of the government delegate in the Valencian Community, the socialist Pilar Bernabé, regarding the actions of the Generalitat in the past, in which she sent two Es-Alert to the cell phones of citizens of the province of Valencia. “We have seen how the Generalitat has changed its way of acting” regarding the dana of October 29, 2024, which caused 230 deaths. It’s “good news to learn from your mistakes,” he added.
Precisely, Bernabé, after visiting Riba-roja, another of the towns affected by the storm, was very critical of the new administrative simplification decree of the Consell, because it gives “free rein to construction without any type of control, without any type of vision and, above all, without consensus with the municipalities and municipal councils, which are those who best know the needs of the territory”.
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