The PP government team leaves criticism after the protest that brought together about 300 people In the Town Hall Square this Monday for dirt in the streets of Alicante. The Councilor for Cleaning and Waste Management, Manuel Villardefended This Tuesday at the press conference after the Governing Board of Service Management and said that “Measures are being taken” To improve your performance, especially in the summer stage. “The government and service team They are taking action, We are very much above the benefits of the service, “said Villar, referring to the level of compliance with the contract.
The mobilization, convened by the Coordinator Alicante Clean (CAL), brought together residents of neighborhoods such as Carolinas, El Pla, Sangueta, La Albufereta or Playa de San Juanamong others, with a common message: the need to improve cleaning throughout the city. Regarding concentration, Villar showing his “I respect” To any manifestation “whenever it is done with education and, in this case, it was held correctly and we must appreciate it,” he said.
The Councilor for Cleaning, to media questions, defended the cleaning situation in the city. “Alicante is constantly getting dirty and cleaning, like any city in the world,” said Villar, who stressed that the service is being provided in accordance with the provisions, as he added that “New people are incorporated every week” to the device. As detailed, last week twelve operators were added and this week another ten will do it, in “Compliance with what the specifications” sets for summer reinforcement.
In that sense, Cleaning Councilor insisted that his responsibility is “That the service is provided in the best conditions”. Regarding the data provided by the opposition about the lack of personnel in the service, Villar defended their numbers: “He who affirms that fewer people leave or that only half of the service is, they are data that are not credible at any time. We do say that the service goes out“Villar said.
Compromís questions management
The spokesman for Compromís, Rafa Mas, joined criticism accusing Villar from “threaten” to the protesters and claiming their resignation. “He has been in office for more than six years and is not able to manage cleaning. This Monday he met a massive and respectful protest in which he was heard clearly: 'Villar resignation' “.
But asked to be promoted “at once” The cleaning service audit, whose application, says, has been pending for months. As for the announced reinforcements, he ironized about his effectiveness: “If you hire twelve people for the whole city, where are they not hiring at ten or twelve, who hire double so that the neighborhoods are cleaned every day,” said more.
Villar also responded to the controversy around the symbolic act of Monday's protest, in which the participants deposited garbage bags in front of the Consistory. “What surprises me is that they call me 'thug' to say that the rules will be met. It was not necessary Villar said, who indicated that he justified: “I just said it could happen, and it didn't happen.”
No containers in Sangueta since March for an access conflict
The protest for the Cleaning in Alicante held on Monday in front of the City Council also served for residents of different neighborhoods to put voice to their problems. Among them, the residents in Sangueta, They recalled that their community has been containers to deposit trash from March 20. “They do not answer us and everything remains the same. We only ask to be able to throw garbage as decent people, “they lamented.
Regarding this case, the Councilor for Cleaning, Manuel Villar, indicated that it is a private urbanization with restricted accesswhich requires an express authorization so that municipal service trucks can enter. “The City Council has sent a document to the community to be able to install the containers inside. We need an access guarantee between 00:00 and 06:00, that the doors are open and a responsibility clause, But the community refuses to sign“Villar said.
The document, dated May 9, establishes that the community must allow free access to trucks and exonerate the collection company, Netial UTE, of possible responsibilities except for obvious negligence. As long as it is not signed, the City Council ensures that it cannot provide the service in conditions, as it did before. “The service cannot be subject to a single point. If access is not authorized, we cannot do more”, Villar Zanjó.
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