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Over 200 people demonstrate against the Ordinances of the AGB |
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Sunday, 30 August 2009 |
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Diario de Cádiz 30/08/2009 Translated by Bob Hamilton  The demonstration, which was attended by several neighborhood groups, took place on the Rana Verde road and caused traffic problems on the main road as well as the side streets. Residents announced other upcoming protests.
More than 200 residents from different neighborhood groups of Rana Verde and other areas affected by the recently approved ordinances for regularisation of Basic Management Areas (Areas de Gestion Basica - AGB) protested yesterday against this document.
The protest began at noon, starting at Calle Aguacate and taking an hour, following the main road to the intersection of Venta Florin, closing the road to traffic during this time with the attendant problems of traffic congestion on a main access road to the beaches during a particularly busy time of the year.
Shouting "this is a robbery," and preceded by three banners that read "we are not illegal," "no to robbery" and "yes to regularisation," participants in the rally wanted to make clear their disapproval of these ordinances to regulate the process of legalisation of houses in the AGB, highlighting its main criticism that it is impossible for most of the neighbors to meet required payments, which from the neighborhood groups’ estimate is an average of around 38,000 Euros.
After the demonstration, in which there were no stressful incidents beyond the obvious traffic problems arising from cutting the Rana Verde road, a spokesman for the association of neighbors who organised the event, Cotin-2 Aguacate, Joaquin Gonzalez, described the demonstration as "a success, given that we only had 5 days to put it together and we have not had the support of neighborhood groups nor the politicians, who have not wanted to know anything and who have wanted quiet, "he said.
In this sense, González stated that "the presence here today of all these people, not just from Rana Verde, but also from other associations of other Areas of Basic Management, serves to demonstrate the lack of consensus and support they would have us believe existed for the ordinances," while criticising the lack at that time of political representatives and members of neighborhood groups, for which, he said," we do not feel represented. "
Gonzalez criticised the "high cost of the regularisation process and requested that they take into account the demands raised by the residents," among which he listed conducting an economic and familial study, case by case, to help people meet the payments; tailored financing; the phasing of work; and so on. Finally, he charged that "we are threatened with demolition and not having water if we don’t pay, after passing some ordinances with malice of forethought in August and without the consensus of the residents.” |
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More than 200 residents from different neighborhood groups of Rana Verde and other areas affected by the recently approved ordinances for regularisation of Basic Management Areas (Areas de Gestion Basica - AGB) protested yesterday against this document.
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