The information that was circulating this Saturday in the neighborhood of the gladioli it was confusing. At least for a part of the population that had received a call summoning a housing act to celebrate this Sunday at the local Los Candiles Neighborhood Association. Only two authorities were mentioned as protagonists of that meeting, the Councilor for Housing in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Juan Jose Martinezand the still national deputy Ana Oramas, now a candidate for the Canary Islands Parliament for the island. The person who made those phone calls on behalf of the organizers provided confusing information, as this newspaper has been able to verify through a recording and then with a direct call: “They are going to inform about the requirements and they are going to give at least to be able to register for rehabilitations and all that”, repeated the woman who answered the calls of people interested in knowing more specific information.
This telephone call largely coincided with the one received on Friday by the media from the Canary Islands Coalition Press Office: “The Canary Islands Coalition candidate for the Parliament of the Canary Islands for the island of Tenerife, Ana Oramas, the CC candidate for Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, and the nationalist candidate for Mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, José Manuel Bermúdez, will hold a meeting with residents of Los Gladiolos to analyze the housing situation and publicize the proposals of the nationalists on this matter. Time: 11.00; Place: Los Candiles Neighborhood Association. Not a word about the Councilor for Housing and nothing about signing up for a list to take advantage of the Urban Regeneration and Renewal Areas (ARRU) agreement, which in the case of the Canary Islands affects fifteen areas for which 1,375 homes will be rehabilitated in the Archipelago . In Santa Cruz de Tenerife, this agreement, signed by the governments of Spain and the Canary Islands, contemplates actions in La Salud, Los Gladiolos, Miramar and Ofra. Hence, the mere mention of rehabilitation in a neighborhood of social development housing such as Los Gladiolos activates the neighborhood.
The premises of the Los Candiles Neighborhood Association is municipally owned and is not on the list of spaces proposed by the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council for an electoral act in the upcoming 28-M elections.
To generate more confusion to the call, some banners placed in the buildings of the neighborhood provided additional information: “Hello, this Sunday May 21 at 11:00 in the morning at the AA.VV. Los Candiles are going to talk about housing in our neighborhood. For that we will have Juan José Martínez, the Housing Councilor (sic) and Ana Orama (sic). Then we invite you to a chocolate.” The billboard ended with the request to confirm attendance through three mobile phone numbers. One of them is that of the woman who made numerous convocation calls and the one who answered at least two people who telephoned her to find out the details, one of them from this newspaper. Another of the numbers belongs to the president of the neighborhood association, Dácil Ramos, who ranks number 12 on the list of the Canary Islands Coalition to the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council headed by José Manuel Bermúdez.
Dácil Ramos, the president of the Los Candiles Neighborhood Association, did not clarify things much when she was asked by this newspaper this Saturday afternoon: “It is an act of the Canary Islands Coalition,” she acknowledges from the beginning of the conversation, and it is for ” talk about the housing issue”, he adds. The neighborhood leader, a member of the Canary Islands Coalition, a member of Tagoror Salud-La Salle and number 12 on that party’s list for the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, was only sure that the Councilor for Housing would attend the event. Ana Oramas, “it is not certain”, but they had not told her anything about Rosa Dávila and the mayor Bermúdez until the moment of her conversation with Canarias Ahora.
However, on the other telephone where information was provided to the restless neighbors, the interlocutor shut down when asked if it was an official act or an act of the Canary Islands Coalition: “Well, eh, as far as I know it is an act that had already been prepared a long time ago, normally we… it has been done here on several occasions due to the Arru issue, a lot of work has been done, and in this case the people responsible have come”.
– But Ana Oramas is not responsible for…
– No, but it will be there, that’s what I can tell you.
To another person who telephoned the same person, the caller told him that, in addition to housing, “we are going to talk a little about everything; sports facilities, parks or something like that, but the fundamental thing is going to be the issue of housing. The important thing is that they are there, that they are informed and that they take note”.
To the call recorded by this newspaper, the neighborhood representative insisted on the same thing: They are going to talk about “the Arru project, the houses that are going to be built from now on, the issue of those under 35 years of age in the houses, it will to be broad, we are going to talk about many things…”
Asked by the president of the association, Dácil Ramos, for the reasons why the association has the telephone number of the residents to summon them to their events, she replied that everyone knows each other there and the entity keeps the data of the people who regularly go to its acts.
The chocolate will be paid for by the association, he assured questions from this newspaper.
