The spokesperson for Adelante Andalucía, José Ignacio García, has assessed the general strike called this Wednesday, November 11, as a true “success” and has conveyed his “congratulations” to the workers who, as he highlighted, “have struck a blow on the table to say we need a right to housing.”
“We want to congratulate all the workers who have gone on strike. To the people who have made an enormous effort, losing pay, risking themselves. To the people who perhaps haven’t been able to go on strike today, but go to the mobilizations this afternoon. Working people show that they are the best thing this society has,” he emphasized in an appearance to the media at a gathering convened in Seville in support of the strike.
García particularly highlighted the impact of the strike on Canal Sur, where television broadcasting was interrupted. “They have made it so that when Juanma Moreno gets up this morning he has a bit of a sickly look on his face to see that their television—the one they intend to manipulate every day—has turned it off,” he stressed.
On the other hand, the spokesperson for Adelante Andalucía has condemned the “police violence” carried out against his regional deputy, Inma Manzano, and against the organization secretary of the formation, Néstor Salvador, while they were taking part in a picket on the tracks of the Metro of Granada.
“It seems outrageous to us; it is police violence, repression, and it can’t be allowed. I ask the PSOE a question: what will it leave behind when Abascal is Minister of the Interior? What will it leave behind?” he said, while also calling for the resignation of the government subdelegate in Granada.
“For luck, Abascal is not going to be Minister of the Interior, but he is not going to be Minister of the Interior thanks to the people who fight, not the Partido Socialista that sends the police to beat up the information pickets and the workers,” he asserted.
Meanwhile, García has again defended his formation’s absence from the Plenary Session of Parliament this afternoon, which will hold the debate on the totality amendments to the Budget.
“I’d rather go on strike than be in Parliament, sitting on a chair, approving a budget that gives money to Asisa, to Quirón, to the multinationals, and above all gives money to the politicians of the Partido Popular who have free housing,” he said.
"Today the Andalusian people have given a lesson and have said, up to here we have come. We need the right to housing and we are going to put a stop to the right and to the far right," he has emphasized.