The spokesman for United We Can, Ramón Trujillo, yesterday criticized the agreement reached by Santa Cruz and Sacyr, Emmasa’s majority shareholder, so that it returns the overcharged canon in the next ten years. Precisely this extreme is one of the criticisms made by Trujillo, who pointed out that, “if we look at the economic report in which the forecast of extra income is collected due to the rise in water for the next ten years, it comes out exactly 33.6 million, just the money they have to pay back.”
Trujillo continued detailing that “not only do they not return to Santa Cruz money that they should not have collected, but they do so in ten years and demanding that, to do so, the rates be raised, a rise that has already been denied by the Commission of Prices, telling them that they cannot raise it by 14% between 2022 and 2023, but rather 2.5%, that is five times less than what they intend.
The UP spokesman continued to reel off an agreement that he described as “shameful” and that “goes against the interests of Santa Cruz.” “If the rate is not raised, the agreement says that the City Council will compensate the company with the municipal budget, that is, with the neighbors’ money.” “And on top of that,” he continued, “they refuse to withdraw the administrative dispute over the collection of the canon.”
