Speaking to the press after visiting the areas affected by the wildfires in Ourense, the president emphasized that firefighting capabilities must be improved due to the worsening effects of the climate crisis.

The leader of the executive branch, who was accompanied by the President of the Galician Government, Alfonso Rueda, and the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, noted that the pact he proposes involves all public administrations, but also parliamentary groups, businesses, unions, and all of civil society, leaving aside "partisan struggles and ideological issues."

After the flames are extinguished and reconstruction begins, he emphasized, a thorough reflection on a strategy that provides for a better and more guaranteed response will be necessary. Sánchez added that Spain is a state in which each administration has its own responsibilities, to which each must respond in a coordinated manner, and he committed to having the foundations of the proposed pact ready by September.

The goal, he explained, is to equip public officials with all the necessary capabilities not only when fires occur, but also beforehand, so they can respond "much more effectively" and with greater guarantees than currently.

The pact is in line with what his government has been doing over the past eight years, with measures, some legislative, that have enabled "a very rapid response" to the situations experienced.