| And has a current and in order rental contract for the house where he resides | IU-V demands the resignation of the VOX Spokesperson for lying when stating that Sosa defended some occupiers against peaceful Spaniards.
Sosa asks the Mayor of Lorca for explanations for allying himself "arguably" with VOX by using the same manipulative line of VOX as a hint.
The Regional Coordinator of IU-V, Alvárez Castellanos, surprised by the lack of political reaction to such a serious attack. The IU-V Municipal Spokesperson, Pedro Sosa, accompanied this morning by the Regional Coordinator of the IU, José Luis Alvárez Castellanos, have offered the media a press conference with various objectives all related to the racist aggression that occurred in Lorca last week. The first of these objectives, Sosa commented, "cannot be other than to highlight my gratitude to the thousands of messages that I have received these days worrying about my state and my physical and mental health and showing solidarity with me and with the political formation that I represent ".
Sosa affirms that he has received messages from Lorca, from the entire Region, from Spain, and even some, for which I have been very grateful, from friends who are far from here, as missionary priests in the poorest countries of the world.
"I thank all of them equally for their encouragement and words and I guarantee that they will not be able to with me," said the left-wing councilor. But above all, the press conference has been called to update the information on the matter, and to disprove a false line of argument about the aggression that has spread like wildfire through the media and social networks.
At this extreme, Sosa argues, I inevitably have to place two politicians who, unfortunately, have focused their statements on insinuation and lies.
I am very sorry, says the IU Councilor, that the Mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, and the Spokesperson for VOX, Carmen Menduiña, have agreed more in focusing their statements on accessory issues (which are also false) than on the essentials that it is the condemnation without "buts", and without palliative, of the aggression.
The VOX spokeswoman in Lorca, who has also had the shame of not condemning the events,He affirms without any doubt that I meddled in a fight to defend alleged "illegal squatters" against good Spaniards whose homes were taken from them. Sosa has shown a copy of the rental agreement signed by the landlord and tenant.
The head of the family also added, "yesterday with tears in his eyes he showed me all the receipts for the rent." It is, adds the IU-Verdes spokesman, a man, with three school children, who gets up at three in the morning to go to work in the fields and feed his children, and who has been attacked For three cowards we want to know about their criminal records. Well, in the face of the proven lie of the VOX Spokesperson, who has come to do politics for our people only to ignite hatred, we demand that this lady resign, that she leave a public position that is great for her and in which this year and a half term has not contributed anything positive to Lorca. And what to say about the Mayor of Lorca, Sosa continued, it is true that he does not affirm it with that emphaticness of the VOX lady, but here is his statement on social networks: "it seems to be, according to the first indications, that it deals with a dispute over the illegal occupation of a house by a family and the attempt by the owners to evict the house in a violent way.
We will have to wait for the investigation.
" Everything can be expected from the extreme right, says Sosa, "but this gratuitous, false, and non-contrasted affirmation of a Mayor who owes his chair to the two councilors of IU, is inconceivable ...
we sincerely expected something else," said the mayor of IU-V.
Now that here is the rental agreement signed by the father of the assaulted family.
A family that lives legally in Spain, that does not illegally occupy any house, that religiously pays its rent, and whose parents are working in the fields and whose three children are at the IES "Príncipe de Asturias" and at the San Cristóbal school.
Those three children who were savagely attacked last week by three madmen who began to piss on the door of their home, in front of the children, to insult,to physically attack and blow up the house of that family with stones ...
now that everything has been clear, what does the Mayor have to say? He will apologize for putting false insinuations on social networks that he could perfectly have checked immediately ...
the Councilor has concluded. For his part, the Regional Coordinator and IU-V, José Luis Alvárez-Castellanos, has indicated that he wanted to accompany Pedro Sosa this morning at the press conference, to personally convey the solidarity and support of the entire IU family both in at the regional level, as well as at the federal level.
Alvárez Castellanos has expressed his surprise at the lack of reaction to the aggression of the regional political formations.
The IU-V Coordinator affirms that, "except for the comrades of PODEMOS and EQUO, no other political force in the regional sphere has condemned the racist aggression, although we do know the concern and personal solidarity that the PP councilors in Lorca have transferred to our colleague Pedro Sosa ". Alvárez Castellanos has pointed out that this aggression suffered by the Spokesperson of IU-V in Lorca is not possible to isolate it from the whole set of aggressions that councilors of IU and United Podemos are receiving in other places in Spain, and that it should be framed in a context of growing political aggressiveness fueled by very dangerous xenophobic discourses that must be fought.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca