Valencia Provincial Council President Vicente Mombo admits that he does not know where the state president, Carlos Mazzone, called him this afternoon. The leader of the Regional People’s Party appears on Monday at the Investigative Committee of the House of Representatives, following the Vice President of the House and the person in charge of housing, Susana Camarero.
In the first intervention, the popular leader stated that he did not know where the state president was speaking from, with whom he spoke on the afternoon of October 29, 2024. Mumbo confirmed that he spoke with Mazzone on two occasions, in two very short calls, which lasted between 17 and 23 seconds, he said.
The President of the Regional Council of Congress confirmed that Mazzone telephoned him to ask about the number of two mayors, namely Cholera (Jordi Mayor, from the Progressive Socialist Party) and Otiel (Ricardo Gabaldon, from the People’s Party). He added: “Yotiel is where the Vorata Basin begins, and Cholera is the end, where it will end up if it breaks.” The regional leader also added that he did not know why he wanted to talk to them, but explained, “I think it will not be about football.” The phone number of the mayor of Cholera was sent to the president by the regional deputy firefighter, Avelino Mascarell, who accompanied Mumbo to the emergency center in Liliana, where Sicubi – the Integrated Operations Coordination Center – was set up throughout the day.
The head of the regional institution indicated that he went to the emergency center in Liliana, where Sikopi was being treated, because he “wanted to help.” According to his story, the deputy fire commissioner told him that technicians were in Iliana and he decided to go and help, as he does with forward command posts (PMA) when there are fires. As he noted, based on his experience, in emergency centers there are usually “nervous” municipal officials and he wanted to cooperate so that they “allow the technicians to work.” Before going to the emergency center, he visited several municipalities like Alcudia and went home with his deputy “to eat something quick in case we have to do something in the afternoon,” referring to the municipal service. “We tried to go to Yotel, but we never got there,” he points out.
Mumbo denied entering into contradictions on television programs, interviews or before the judge. He challenged parliamentarians to develop these contradictions. When asked about his intervention in the Salvados case, his first public intervention, he said that he was “doing an assumption exercise in this context,” and noted that some of the answers were cut off.
‘I wasn’t aware of the power outage’
Regarding the stop in Sekopi, he said: “I learned about this blackout through the media. I did not know that there was a power outage. My feeling there was that we were with Sekopi running the whole time.” He also insisted that the emergency was related to the possible rupture of the Vorata Dam: “The Alert Es appears in my life at seven o’clock in the evening,” when the head of the Hydrographic Union warned of the dam. “As of 8:11 p.m., the emergency focus is at Pantana He stressed that “the message was not discussed until seven o’clock in the evening, although the technicians announced that the conversation about the emergency tool had begun earlier.”
The person responsible for the popular tools in Valencia says that it was Jorge Suarez, deputy emergency director, who “presented the tool” and “contacted people from his team to write it.” However, he points out, “I don’t understand the delay from when he said that to when he sent it.”