Paco de la Torre:

The mayor of Málaga, whose municipal account of the City Council of Málaga posted a video on social media of the mayor around midnight from the Municipal Emergency Center, in Mayorazgo, where he explained how he had been in a meeting of the Greencities organizing committee in Madrid yesterday, and had returned to Málaga by road, "because the trains were not going to operate," and that when they learned of the electrical grid failure, they had to improvise.

"Logically, this crisis must be reflected upon at the national, regional, and local levels to be as robust as possible in the future," stated De la Torre, hoping that it would not happen again, as it had never happened before "it seems." He indicated that the City Council of Málaga would collaborate in the analysis and thanked, in this moment of uncertainty, the people of Málaga for ensuring that mobility was as manageable as possible (in case there were no traffic lights working today). He explained that it was known in advance that there would be damage due to the lack of electrical supply with frozen goods and that it would have to be dealt with. "We will mobilize from the City Council the necessary action, both from the national and regional governments to address this issue."

He stated that if Spain and Portugal were the only two countries affected, it was feasible that the government would ask the EU for help due to the incident, "and also for the companies affected by the loss of energy" and hoped that it would not last longer and would be a punctual issue.

De la Torre explained that the shifts of the Local Police had been doubled, in such a way that those in the morning continued in the afternoon, and those in the afternoon did so at night, and that plainclothes officers had been deployed at some points in the city for security. He explained that yesterday, Monday, he had offered the Government Sub-delegation the EMT's fuel reserve "while the Government mobilizes any strategy they had regarding generators" and reported that the City Council has 35 generators and that they were working correctly.

He thanked everyone for their collaboration, and specifically his government team, as they moved to level 3, where the current crisis now depends on the Government, and he offered his collaboration to the Government delegate, Javier Salas, and to the delegate of the Junta, Patricia Navarro. The mayor also reported that the City Council had provided fuel for generators (substitutes for the electrical grid) in health and research matters.