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Today EMUASA door, the candidate for Secretary General of CAN MURCIA, Toni Carrasco, accompanied by the candidates Citizen Council, Miguel Ángel Alzamora and Maria Gimenez, explained to the media the meaning of certain policies on basic services such as housing, water and electricity in our town, providing information to show that such strategies are neither innocent nor casual but raised as a smokescreen to hide certain interests.
In addition to their complaint, the course can candidacy formulated in clear terms the claim by a citizen redistricting WATER SERVICE OF THE CITY OF MURCIA.
Claim that large corporations like EMUASA fear, because a policy change in this regard would make them lose both their privileges as the status of power exercised today to subject their balance sheets economy benefits all citizens of our city, and many others.
"Joint ventures transform public services in businesses and citizens in customers'
Toni Carrasco said "the current management model for much of the municipal utilities is the subject of much discussion by civil society. The management formula used in the municipality of Murcia remains true to the strategy designed by large companies transnational (Agbar) that through joint ventures as EMUASA (public private partnership) and with the connivance of the City, transform public services in simple business customers and citizens. In this context, human rights and citizenship stop be of universal access thus exacerbating the vulnerability of the poorest people. The universal access to basic services (water, electricity and energy) is a social need and a moral imperative of public authorities, not only at certain times, but all days a year.
"Of course we committed to effective guarantee of the human right to water, not, palliative welfare-oriented temporary measures. We focus on redistricting"
María Giménez for his part, said that "the candidacy of course can bet on the effective guarantee of the human right to water recognized legal standards, bylaws, not temporary measures, mitigation of
welfare nature.
Social fully assume the Water Pact, because commitment to public management from a socio-ecological perspective to ensure basic services as services of general interest.
We can bet on a management model with citizen oversight and public participation mechanisms and social councils involving all actors of civil society and workers.
We can bet on Redistricting and assess the rescue of granting those utilities privatized under the joint venture model as EMUASA ".
"We ask our public institutions to recognize the" need of emergency housing. "
Miguel Ángel Alzamora stressed that we must remove the insidious speech that private enterprise can effectively and efficiently manage public services.
Alzamora cited the pernicious impact of private water management in the city of Murcia.
"The first impact and the most cruel is the risk that you cut the water for nonpayment. Admittedly, the neighborhood struggle has managed to curb water shortages in the city, but still continue to occur in families immersed in implementation processes mortgage, you still have possession of the property, but not his property. The problem is that before any procedure to do with the water company, the bank is often denied to do so, so many families have suffered cuts Murcia this year. The second impact on the population is the continued increase in water prices. EMUASA announced in spring but had gained more than 5 million euros, again would raise water bills for citizens. The effect of that management remains to Murcia and Murcia pay the country side water, while being also the most save water. The third impact that belies the effectiveness of private management, is that as we have seen these days with the break a pipe in the neighborhood of El Carmen, in the same infrastructure that has already suffered several fractures, is the lack of maintenance to which the company is required.
In the last month of August, we also see how after a burst pipe in Beniaján, ten families had to be evacuated from their homes by danger of collapse of the buildings they inhabited. "Alzamora recalled that" no right to decent housing no access to water or electricity, and houses without rights is increasingly filled Murcia.
The rise of precarious housing systems (shacks, demolition, etc.) show signs of failure of the Ministry in implementing the actions of "slum clearance" of the Regional Housing Plan 2009-20012.
On the other hand, Alzamora recalled that "there is a broad consensus on the need to guarantee the right to adequate housing as a human right that is being violated systematically throughout the country, with a disastrous impact on our region and our city. The so-called "antidesahucios Law" 1/2013, which supposedly would take care of vulnerable families immersed in foreclosure processes, has resulted in their first year up 14% of the evictions. In the Murcia region according to the Judicial Council evictions mortgage and rent is 21% for the first three quarters of 2014. In addition, the region has about 130,000 empty homes, many of them in the hands of banks, and as confirmed by the Ombudsman disappeared in a report, there are over 260 in Murcia empty public housing promotion, which already by itself solve the housing problem for some families.
For these and other reasons, from Murcia course can believe that the resolution adopted by the citizens in the state assembly "Yes we can" must be one of the first also policies at local and regional lines, to carry out proposals as "paralyzing forced evictions without alternative housing; decriminalize the use of abandoned homes in the absence of alternative; criminalize hoarding situation homes by financial institutions, recognizing the right to payment in kind retroactively and that court proceedings offering such guarantees. "
Thus, the course team Murcia can request our public institutions to recognize the "need of emergency housing" and a plan with a genuine public policy of municipal and regional social housing that guarantees our right to decent housing.
Source: Equipo Claro que Podemos de Toni Carrasco.
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