The PP has inhibited itself this Monday due to the lack of access to electricity in Cañada Real when three years have passed since the electricity supply was cut off in this old livestock route where more than 7,500 people live in the six sectors that run through the municipalities of Madrid, Coslada and Rivas.
Once the Board of Spokespersons has ended, the parliamentary groups of Más Madrid, PSOE and Vox in the Madrid Assembly have demanded solutions from the regional Executive in the face of “almost inhuman” conditions that, they understand, are “propped up” by the Governments of Isabel Díaz Ayuso in the Community of Madrid and that of José Luis Martínez-Almeida in the Consistory. While the PP, through its spokesperson in the Madrid Assembly, Carlos Díaz-Pache, has stated that it should be families and supply companies who make the contracts to access electricity.
“The Executive is not competent to provide electricity,” justified Pache who, however, has listed the assistance provided by the regional government to relocate 408 families since 2018, the last 180 through an agreement signed last week.
The Executive’s explanations, however, do not convince the opposition. The leader of Más Madrid, Mónica García, understands that both the regional and municipal administrations of the capital “are abandoning their responsibility regarding the problem of La Cañada”, she has reproached.
For his part, the socialist spokesperson, Juan Lobato, has defended the actions of the Government of Spain, which has taken “firm steps” and has recalled that there is a pending agreement between the three administrations – national, regional and local governments – and has highlighted that it is a problem “so big that everyone needs to collaborate.”
For her part, the leader of Vox, Rocío Monasterio, has stressed that the problem is delayed by “bureaucracy” and has insisted that the solution is not to restore the supply but to “make social housing” so that “there are no children splashing around.” in the mud or sick people locked up in shacks”. “For that we have a Department of Social Affairs and if not, we close it,” she stated.
Spain has received several calls for attention from the UN regarding the situation in the Cañada Real Galiana. Its Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, has described what is happening in Cañada Real as “a humanitarian catastrophe and a defeat of social rights.”
