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Spain is a very polarized country,
said Camas, of Ipsos
Spaniards have continued to identify politicians as the country’s main problem, above unemployment, the independence of Catalonia, corruption or anything else,
Ever since the Covid pandemic ... said Paco Camas, head of public opinion in Spain for polling firm IpsosI don’t know what happened, but [Sánchez] got out of our zone alive.”
Spanish media published a WhatsApp post by one of the alleged assailants, a member of the far-right Revuelta group, which readPolitical decentralization in [the German] case is [based on] a collaborative premise, with … a minimum of institutional loyalty, which here has been disappearing at an alarming rate,
she saidI wouldn’t ask the central government for more cooperation, I would ask it for any cooperation,
he saidHe didn’t console the people, like for example you see the British royals do,
Bartomeus said
It could go down as the greatest day of Felipe’s reign,
Oriol Bartomeus, a political science professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, told The Associated PressIf there already existed a certain confusion among some people as to what powers the king has, now he runs the danger of people thinking he is responsible for something which he is not,
she saidI want to express all my government’s solidarity and its acknowledgement of the anguish, suffering, uncertainty and the needs of the residents of Paiporta and the region of Valencia,
Sánchez said,
We will not allow radical groups to profit from people's pain."
Sanchez's deputy, Maria Jesus Montero, reacted to the allegations on X, saying
If you want, I won't come and I'll stay in Madrid,
he said in an 11-word retort after one Valencian loudly shouted at him
He should come here and get rid of the mud and the dead that are in garages. And then he'll be one of us.”
Francisco Javier Molina saidThey left us to die. We’ve lost everything: our businesses, our homes, our dreams.”
Another woman said
It’s logical that the people are angry, it’s logical that the people didn’t understand why this visit is so urgent,
he addedThe king and all came very clean and to look good in front of the town and cameras but this doesn't help us at all
His friend, 20-year-old Francisco Javier Molina, added
The king can shove it but it's the Valencian government head Carlos Mazon and Pedro Sanchez who are to blame
One woman who lives there, Maria Tarin, told the TimesI’m just 16, ... We’re helping – and the leaders do nothing. People are still dying. I can’t stand this anymore.”
one boy named Pau told BBC as he teared up,
Please, the dead are still in the garages, the families are looking for their relatives and friends. Please come, we only ask for help … All we wanted was to be warned and we would have been saved,
yelled one resident, Nuria Chisber, the Reuters news agency reported
I am aware the response is not enough; there are problems and severe shortages ... towns buried by mud, desperate people searching for their relatives ... we have to improve,
Sanchez said
Thank you to the people who have come to help us, to all of them, because from the authorities: nothing,
a furious Estrella Caceres, 66, told AFP in the town of Sedavi