Will the EPP drown in Valencia’s floodwaters?

Will the EPP drown in Valencia’s floodwaters?

Six months on from the fatal disaster, Europe’s largest political party is meeting in the eye of the storm.

Floods in Valencia occurred six months ago, but 203 of the 337 municipalities affected are still in a state of emergency, according to a report from the autonomous government of the Valencian Community.

More than 220 people died.

The Health Counselor, Marciano Gómez, has criticized that the Minister of Health, Mónica García, "does not assume her responsibility" and has demanded that she "launch the Emergency Mental Health Units (USME), which still do not reach the Valencian Community six months after they were announced in November in the Council of Ministers to support the attention to the people affected by the floods of October 29th." Gómez has reproached the minister…

At the beginning of April, the autonomous government of the Valencian Community released a “diagnostic report” on the floods in which it reveals that 337 municipalities, with an area of 14,760 square kilometers, were affected by the floods and that 103 (5,646 square kilometers) remain in a “state of emergency”, all of them in the province of Valencia, on the outskirts of the region's capital city. According to the document, the floods affected m…