cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46537396
Abandon people for days > Going to take photos with the same people. What did they expect?
Edit: fix typo
Tell you have no idea how civil protection and emergency response works in Spain without telling me you have no idea how civil protection and emergency response works in Spain.
Emergency response is the responsibility of the autonomous communities not of the national government which only makes resources available to the regional governments. Valencians were abandoned by their own politicians.
I know it all too well; I’m from Valencia and I’ve seen firsthand how official help barely arrived on time—only the volunteers, the local community, and a few from the UME stepped up. Politicians from both the Valencian Community and Spain promised assistance, but it never came. It took days for official help to show up. Then they come for a visit, just to take photos, like that actually does anything. They cleaned the streets where they were going to walk, but left the rest of the neighborhood a mess. People have lost everything, and the politicians just come to play politics. The reaction is totally understandable.
Woah there mate, clearly the solution is to get more politicians to walk all the streets so that everything gets cleaned. You need more, not less politicians
Apparently they were primarily mad at the politicians, not the royals.
Prime Minister Sánchez and the head of Valencian regional government, Carlos Mazón, joined the royal couple on the visit, but were swiftly evacuated as the crowd grew increasingly hostile.
Spanish media reports that objects were hurled at Sánchez, while footage verified by the BBC appears to show stones being thrown at his car as he was driven away.
After he left, the crowd chanted: “Where is Sánchez?”
Hola, ¿lo conoces !esp@lemm.ee ? Estamos intentando reunir a los hispanohablantes de Lemmy.
This seems like… a bad idea? If I understand you correctly, each region maintains disaster relief infrastructure & staff with help from the central/national government? If so, does that translate to richer regions being less affected by calamities (since they can pour more money into said infrastructure than the bare minimum)?
In most countries (with such plans in place) the national government maintains all disaster relief management to assist local governments, right?
Sorry I’ve asked a lot of questions, but I’m genuinely interested to know!
Wow, Spain is even more progressive than England in finding out that their monarchy is nothing more than a resemblance of colonialism and religious death cults.
Perfectly valid behaviour. He is the symbol of the state. People are pissed at the state for being slow to react. He is simply dealing with what comes with the job. If he doesn’t-t like it, he can always abdicate.
Does the Spanish royalty have any actual power?
Not really, just representative. They are useless. They are just eating spanish money because yes.
Right. But that doesn’t really make sense to blame them when they had no power to prevent this either. This should be put onto the actual politicians and all the voters who did not vote for Green politicians (which I would guess includes a lot of the people now trying to scapegoat the royalties here).
The problem with the monarchy is that it costs money and is useless, except for visiting affected places, as if that did any good; they don’t provide solutions. At the same time, they have cleaned the streets where they were going to pass but haven’t cleaned the rest of the streets, which angered the people.
All of this happened because the monarchy, the president of Spain, and the president of the Valencian Community all came at the same time. Everything added up and ended up like this.
having kings and queens in the year 2024 is just entirely ridiculous.
