“What the Partido Popular wants to do is privatise all the land, sell it off and have luxury homes built, and they are incapable of looking after the residents of this Malaga municipality who need it so badly,” says the secretary general of the PSOE of Málaga, Dani Pérez
“Now that the governing team’s first 100 days have passed, we wish to stress our concern about the paralysis at the Town Hall, as many important projects have been brought to a standstill and this new governing team does not seem to be pushing them forward,” says the Socialist spokesperson at Manilva Town Hall, Diego Jiménez
The secretary general of the PSOE of Málaga, Dani Pérez, highlights the instability of the governing team in Manilva, a ‘Frankenstein’ government made up of the Partido Popular, with the support of Izquierda Unida and Vox, which governs the municipality by putting the private interests of each political party above the general interest of the municipality. “What the Partido Popular wants to do is privatise all the land, sell it off and have luxury homes built. However, they are incapable of looking after the residents of Manilva who need it so badly. And above all, we see a Partido Popular mayor who is more concerned with raising taxes and collecting invoices through the tax obtained in the Mancomunidad (Association of Municipalities) than with really looking after his municipalities.”
“This situation is damaging for Manilva and is getting worse, as the Partido Popular is going to raise taxes for the people of Manilva, with the intention of fleecing them with taxes. And this cannot be. Therefore, this ‘Frankenstein’ government that the Partido Popular has formed with Izquierda Unida and Vox will bring nothing to Manilva but more tax rises and, above all, the neglect of its residents. I do not believe Izquierda Unida voters agree with this. Those who took the ballot paper to vote for Izquierda Unida and now see the Partido Popular governing with their vote. An unnatural pact to roll back rights, to watch services being privatised, to watch taxes going up, which will bring nothing but more problems for the town and, above all, a lack of attention to its residents,” says Pérez.
For her part, the Socialist member of the Congress of Deputies, Mari Nieves Ramírez, stressed “our firm commitment to this municipality, where whenever necessary we will take all the demands of the residents of this magnificent town to Congress. We also want to demand that the Partido Popular mayor, who is busier and more concerned with stirring up tension among citizens and permanently confronting the Spanish government, takes on his responsibilities, guarantees water resources, stops tearing apart our public healthcare, stops raising public prices in public education in our autonomous community and, of course, backs the dependency law.”
Today, “we have learned that the autonomous community of Andalucía is the last community in terms of investment in the social services law, despite how enormously important this law is, which we Socialists introduced to give dignity not only to those who are dependent but also to their carers. We demand and ask that they stop confronting Pedro Sánchez and the Spanish government and get to work and take on their responsibilities to improve the quality of life of the citizens of Manilva. That is why we demand that the Partido Popular abandon the tension on the streets and get to work improving the quality of life of Andalusian citizens, in this case in Manilva,” says Ramírez.
Meanwhile, the Socialist spokesperson for the Mancomunidad de Municipios de la Costa del Sol Occidental, Víctor Navas, highlighted from this Malaga municipality “the importance of the Costa del Sol’s water resources. At the Mancomunidad de Municipios we have set an agenda to visit the different towns, where we have detected constant population growth, which means there are neither enough school places nor quality care in public healthcare.”
“One of the most important responsibilities of our region is to guarantee water resources for the population, not only because of what it means for the people of the Costa del Sol, but because of its importance for the emerging tourism industry. And we are seeing that the Junta de Andalucía is planning tax rises, both in water, in bulk supply, and in sanitation through the Mancomunidad de Municipios de la Costa del Sol. A Partido Popular that does nothing but confront the Spanish Government, while forgetting its basic responsibilities, which are to guarantee the supply of water to all the residents of the Costa del Sol and to the tourism industry,” he added.
For his part, the Socialist spokesperson at Manilva Town Hall, Diego Jiménez, gave an assessment of the governing team’s first 100 days, in which he highlighted “our concern about the paralysis at the Town Hall. Many important projects have come to a standstill and this new governing team does not seem to be pushing them forward. Instead, what we are finding are grandiose announcements of urban development that does not build a town. They supposedly want to build new facilities on rural land, followed by one or two thousand homes. I insist, we cannot shelve the projects that build a town and bring our communities together in order to build in the countryside. This cannot be the urban planning model for our town.”
He added, “we are also very concerned about the mayor’s lack of dedication, as he has chosen between the mayoralty and a career in his party in other institutions, having chosen to move to the Mancomunidad. All of this is reflected in insufficient time devoted to the mayoralty, and shows how little the problems of the people of Manilva matter to him. We hope this dedication is not linked to a rise in charges and taxes. What our citizens expect is the construction of a second secondary school. Land was made available for the Junta de Andalucía to build a second school, since the one we have in the town has more pupils and teachers than the population of 33 towns in our province. The ratio is at its limit and there is not enough space, and the solution is to build a second secondary school. We urge the government, the mayor, to work hand in hand with his colleagues so that this school becomes a reality as soon as possible, so that the Junta de Andalucía fulfils its responsibilities and builds a second secondary school, which is urgent and absolutely necessary,” he concluded.
