The left criticizes Mazón's management of the blackout and believes he is blaming himself for the incident.

The hyperactive Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, had time yesterday, while reporting on the gradual restoration of rail traffic, to criticize the image of Carlos Mazón monitoring the blackout alongside his two vice presidents, Susana Camarero and Francisco José Gan Pampols, and the Minister of Health, Marciano Gómez, at an old table in the Palau de la Generalitat. "There are those who manage. And there are those who always, in one way or another, give themselves a hard time. And these calamities should bring us even the slightest reproach..." wrote one of the ministers who has always been the harshest with the Valencian leader.

An image of Mazón and part of his team later went viral when compared to other crisis cabinets, such as those organized in Catalonia by Salvador Illa or Adrián Barbón in Asturias. It was so criticized that Mazón himself later published another, more formal photograph with more members of his executive (five of the 10 that comprise it) to explain the decision of the Consell plenary session to request the Government of Spain to declare a state of emergency of national interest throughout the Valencian Community as a result of the massive power outages across Spain.

The Valencian left echoed this demand yesterday to criticize the Valencian leader's management, reminding him of the different way the Valencian government dealt with the Dana crisis. The most forceful was the PSPV spokesperson in the Corts Valencianes, José Muñoz, who pointed out that "with every step he takes" regarding the blackout, Mazón "is blaming himself for his negligence on October 29, demonstrating that things can be done that he didn't do back then." The Socialist leader criticized the head of the Consell for "declaring a Level 3 emergency and then traveling to New York in the following days as if things were absolutely normal." "It's like a poor student who once again forgets about the people of Valencia," the Socialist spokesperson stated. Continuing with Óscar Puente's metaphor, he pointed out that "faced with a new emergency, Mazón has traded the Ventorro for a game of mus."

Faced with a new emergency, Mazón has exchanged the Ventorro for a game of mus José Muñoz, PSPV ombudsman

For Muñoz, the request for a national emergency "has shown what could have happened on October 29th if he had understood that he was overwhelmed by circumstances and had asked the Spanish government to assume responsibility, which it would have done de facto, as it has now." Yesterday marked six months since the terrible flood that claimed the lives of 228 Valencians. And Muñoz echoed Alberto Nuñez Feijóo's idea that the president was completely out of control.

The Socialist leader also criticized the PP's "mobilization of 900 police officers under Emergency Level 3, decreed in the Valencian Community, to guarantee the security of the European PP conclave," when these officers should be "freed up to deal with any unexpected event that may arise."

Comparison The Consell disassociates both emergency declarations: "The damage has nothing to do with the blackout."

In response to criticism, the first vice president of the Valencian Consell (Consell), Susana Camarero, argued the request to the government for a national emergency declared early this morning and disassociated it from the emergency situation last October. "The situation that occurred yesterday, with a widespread blackout across the entire country, has nothing to do with the emergency situation," stated the deputy president of the Valencian government, who emphasized that "it would be normal" for the government to declare this emergency since "the national agencies were the ones with the information."

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The Compromís representative, Joan Baldoví, also criticized Mazón's management. He emphasized that the Council's request for a Level 3 emergency discredits the Minister of Emergencies, Juan Carlos Valderrama, and the President, Carlos Mazón, and endorses "the uselessness of a manager who, once again, failed to rise to the occasion."

The Compromís leader expressed surprise that Mazón didn't request emergency level 3 until other autonomous regions (mostly from the PP) did so. The Valencian opposition feels that Mazón was reluctant to take this step so as not to expose what wasn't done during the flood, now that six months have passed since the flood.

At a time when thousands of people were without telephone, electricity, water, and basic services for several days, Mazón did not declare a level 3 emergency. Joan Baldoví, PSPV ombudsman

"At a time when thousands of people were without telephone, electricity, water, and basic services like transportation for several days, surrounded by mud and receiving food from outside, Mr. Mazón did not declare a Level 3 emergency, and yesterday, when the situation was recovering, he did request it," Baldoví noted.