Two manifestations summoned this Wednesday at Valladolid and Burgos To ask for the resignation of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, President of the Junta de Castilla y León, for their fire management they have failed loudly by not gathering more than 1,500 and 400 people respectively. Protesters have claimed greater prevention for the future and have also requested the resignation of the Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones, Director of Environment of the Board.
The golden fountain in Valladolid has been the starting point of the concentration that has gathered some 1,500 protesters at 20:00 hours on Wednesday afternoon. The demonstration has begun with a minute of silence in honor of the fatal victims who have left forest fires.
After the minute of silence, the convenings have asked the regional government not to “seek political calculation and rivalry with the central government” to worry about “managing paranormal fires.” «It is not necessary for Mañueco to promise that a series of aid will be launched, since they must first reflect and cease the general director of Natural and political heritageJosé Ángel Arranz, to the counselor of the branch and then leave him, ”said one of the spokesmen of the demonstration.
Under the motto «Against the fire of inaction: prevention and means now!», The protesters have criticized the lack of means to deal with the fires that are affecting Castilla y León, in particular Zamora and León. However, protesters have not criticized the inaction of the Government of Pedro Sánchez.
400 people in Burgos
Just 400 people have concentrated in Burgos to protest the same reason and with a similar speech: ask for the resignation of Mañueco and Suárez-Quiñonesin addition to showing their solidarity with people affected by fires. Calls have criticized that the fires of recent weeks have created a “INSUSTANIBLE SCENARIO” for firefighters and for those who work in the tasks of extinction of fire, which are “overflowed with fires so far.
For its part, ‘Forest Firefighters in Lucha’ has organized for this Thursday at 10 am a second concentration since during the last weeks the situation “It has become unsustainable” For forest fire workers in Castilla y León.
Burgos’s forest firefighters were not in the concentration on Wednesday since they were at the Valladolid appointment and point out that the operation “is totally overwhelmed at the ineptitude” of the Board.