Another press release landed on our desks, but this time from the PP, who claim that they prevented the PSOE, IU and the PA from taking out a lawsuit against members of the Velilla and San Cristóbal underground-parking co-operative.
The PP is referring to the fact that in the last plenary meeting of the Town Council, these parties put forward and backed a motion to demand legal responsibilities from the companies behind the two underground car parks, which, according to the PP, are comprised of all the members of the public that have bought parking spaces in them.
However, the residents of and visitors to San Cristóbal are not happy bunnies anyway, as far as the Mayor is concerned. In fact, they are fuming.
They are complaining that they are having a really rotten summer holiday and demand that a walkway should be provided so that they can access the beach without having to go on a 3-day camel trek with a packed lunch.
For many, it would be a pleasure to lock up their flats and bugger off somewhere else to spend the summer break, but the way things stand financially, they can’t afford to go anywhere else – they bought flats here and can’t get rid of them, so they’re stuck with them.
For the last two summers, they have had to deal with the same obstacles because the underground car park is bent upon impersonating the Somme 1916. And now they are into their third luckless summer here. Come to Almuñécar, fall down a 4-metre pit, climb back out and don’t forget to spend your money in the meantime.
“This is unsustainable, a disaster, a crime… we have been putting up with these lies for two years – they’re destroying Almuñécar,” said one, highly unimpressed tourist.
And then one day it all boiled over and the human contents of several apartment blocks emptied out into the streets in simultaneous frustration and called for blood. They marched through town until they came to the Town Hall and demanded to be heard. They were disappointed.