The spokesperson for the municipal government, Inmaculada Sanz, said this Thursday at the press conference after the plenary session, that the words of the PP spokesperson in the Chamartín district about homeless people are "taken out of context", although she has said that the vocal himself, Francisco Montoro, has transferred to the City Council that he would be willing to "qualify" them if "an interpretation different from the one he wanted to say" has been made.
Along the same lines, the mayor himself, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has stated that councilor Francisco Montoro limited himself to exposing "neighborhood opinions", but that it is not a private opinion.
With these statements, the two leaders of the Madrid municipal PP try to settle the controversy of the homeless and their attraction to the water sources in certain neighborhoods of the city.
La Cadena Ser published on Wednesday that during the last plenary session of the Chamartín district, in a debate on a proposal for pedestrianization of streets, the PP spokesman, Francisco Montoro, stated that "when we open a fountain, we have a neighbor who tells us that why has this fountain been opened, because it attracts homeless people, people who come to drink water and feel bad about it”.
The same information indicates that the president of the plenary session, the councilor-president of Chamartín, Sonia Cea (PP), tried to calm the situation by stating that "everyone can say their opinion and you have to have respect for it."
Asked about this issue at the press conference after the Governing Board, Inmaculada Sanz commented that, on the one hand, the statements are "partly taken out of context" and Montoro himself has transferred to the Madrid City Council that "if it has been made an interpretation different from the one he wanted to say, he is willing to qualify them”.
“It is a specific situation that occurs in Chamartín from a situation denounced by the neighbors. It is something specific that happens in an area of the district and in the face of these demands from the neighbors, there is no problem that if they have been misinterpreted (the statements) or they have not been explained well, I can clarify and explain them ”, he stressed.
"I believe that we have shown, in the government team's policy, respect for people in vulnerable situations" and the will to "improve their situation", has settled.
Some opposition parties, such as Más Madrid or the Madrid PSOE, have not been slow to react. The PSOE of the City Council of the capital has launched the following message: "It is clear that the initials of Almeida's PP attract classists and intolerants."
