Ramón Trujillo, spokesperson for United We Can (Izquierda Unida, Podemos, Equo) in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, calls on the Government of the Canary Islands and the Granadilla City Council to prevent the company DesoKupa from expelling from their homes in San Isidro 48 families in a situation of social exclusion. Likewise, the municipal spokesman demands that Desokupa not be allowed to assume an exercise of authority functions, which is as illegitimate and as incompatible with democracy as entrusting them to dissolve demonstrations. These practices must be stopped before they spread to other municipalities.
Trujillo affirms that “the authorities of a democratic State cannot accept that a pro-fascist company, which publicly describes the 48 families in a situation of social exclusion as riffraff, cuts off their drinking water and, furthermore, threatens to expel them from their homes, generating a climate of coercion and potential illegitimate use of force. And, in addition, act protected by the presence of the Civil Guard”. For the politician, state institutions “should not delegate their powers, even by default, to groups with authoritarian ideology such as DesoKupa.”
The spokesperson for United We Can affirms that the island’s municipalities must not remain silent in the face of the “generation of a parallel, private and authoritarian state, destined to combat people in social exclusion and generate a climate of hatred against poor people.” “The island’s municipalities and institutions must act to prevent the degradation of democracy that comes with delegating state functions to far-right organizations,” he concludes.
United We Can expresses support for the Tenants’ Union and the Montaña Clara Platform for the fundamental role they are playing in defending the right to housing of the 48 families on Isla de la Graciosa street in San Isidro, “which the administrations have not knew, or have not wanted, to guarantee”.
The spokesman for United We Can, in the capital of Tenerife, affirms in the statement that “the institutions have to guarantee a housing solution to the 48 families of San Isidro and that, likewise, they must protect them from the acts of Desokupa and act immediately against courts of water and light. It is unacceptable that private groups are allowed to expel people who are in a situation of social exclusion from their homes.”
