The Minister of Territorial Policy and Spokeswoman of the Acting Government, Isabel Rodríguez, has announced today that next Monday the Council of Ministers will declare an Area Severely Affected by Civil Protection Emergencies those territories that suffered the persistent and widespread rainfall at the beginning of September, which recorded a balance of eight deaths and considerable personal damage in practically all provinces, especially in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Aragon, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Comunitat Valenciana, Illes Balears, Community of Madrid and Murcia region.
An agreement, explained the acting minister, that “responds to the commitment of the Government to reduce the processing times of aid to local entities for natural disasters to one third of the time used in previous legislatures.” If in 2015 it was 461 days until the publication of the call, at present the processing period has been reduced to 148 days, despite the fact that in this period the management of the pandemic and the economic consequences of the war have had to be dealt with.